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GREENE COUNTY SOLDIERS 



LATE WAR. 



BEING A HISTORY OF THE 



SEYEHTY-FOURTH 0. Y. I„ 

WITH SKETCHES OF THE 

TWELFTH, NINETY-FOURTH, ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH, 
FORTY-FOURTH, TENTM OHIO BATTERY, ONE HUN- 
DRED AND FIFTY-FOURTH, FIFTY- FOURTH. 
SEVENTEENTH, THIRTY-FOURTH, ONE 
HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOURTH, 

TOGETHER WITH A 

LIST OF GREENE C0UNTT3 SOLDIERS. 



IRA S, DWENS, 

COMPANY C, SEVENTY-FOURTH O. V. I. 



D.4YTON, OHIO: 

CHRISTIAN PUBLISHING HOUSE PRINT, 
1884. 









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TO MY 

COMRADES IN ARMS, 

THIS VOLUME IS 

FRATERNALLY INSCRIBED 

BY THE AUTHOR. 



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PRE FA C E. 



In 1872 the author of this book wrote and published a small book 
the title of which was, <' Greene County in the War." But the 
supply being exhausted, a second edition has been published, similar to 
the first one, but enlarged and revised. In addition to the first book, 
sketches of other regiments have been added, together with anecdotes 
and incidents of the late war ; also, a list of Greene County's soldiers, 
copied from muster-rolls in the Adjutant General's office at Columbus. 
In this, as well as the former work, the author does not attempt to give 
a general history of the rebellion, but simply a history of his own 
regiment — the Seventy-fourth Ohio — and parts of other organizations 
in which Greene County was represented. It is not, however, strictly 
confined to Greene County alone, but other counties in the state, as well. 
The author having spent considerable time and labor in gettmg out this 
book, offers it to the public, hoping that it may prove interesting and 
profitable to its readers. 

IRA S. OWENS. 



CONTENTS 



PAGE. 

Introduction 13 

Seventy-Fourth Regiment, O. V. I. 

Organization and Rendezvous 17 

Officers 17 

Ordered to Nashville 18 

A Strict Disciplinarian 18 

March to Lebanon, Tennessee 19 

The Star Spangled Banner 20 

In Line of Battle 21 

Prayer-meeting "With Andrew Johnson 22 

A Rebel Boaster 23 

A Colored Social Meeting 25 

A Skirmish With the Rebels 26. 

Rosencranz' Words of Cheer . . . . , 27- 

March to Murfreesboro 28. 

Rosencranz' Address to the Army 29 

Battle of Murfreesboro 30-39 

Sanitary Commission-work 39-42 

Official Report of General Rosencranz 43-53- 

Hospital Sufferings and Scenes 53 

Seventy-Fourth Killed and Wounded 5^-59^ 

Colonel Josiah Given Succeeds Colonel Moody 61 

Changes of Officers 62 

In the Hospitals at Nashville 63 

The Humane Colonel. ... i 65 



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PAGE. 

At Home on Furlough 66 

The Great Atlanta Campaign 69 

Trick on the Rebels 72 

A Johnnie After Some Coffee. .... ... J-^ 

The Killing of General Pope 75 

Fixing a Rebel Sharpshooter 75 

Leatherbreeches' Battery 76 

Death of General McPherson 80 

On the Skirmish Line 82 

Method of Cooking Roasting-ears 83 

Melville Davis Mortally Wounded 84 

Death of William H. Hollenberry . '. 85 

Evacuation of Atlanta 86 

The Negroes .' 91 

In Front of Savannah , , 94 

Capture of Fort McAllister 95 

A Boat-load of Salt Beef. . „ 97 

Burning Property in South Carolina 98 

Assassination of President Lincoln 104 

Homeward March 106 

Richmond and Belle Isle. 107 

Citizens Once More ... m 

Recapitulation 11 i-i 13 

Incidents 1 13-1 18 

Campaign Songs . ... 1 19-125 

Twelfth Regiment, O. V. I. 

Organization , ,., -. 126 

Battle of Scarey Creek .... 126 

Death of Colonel Lowe at Carnifex Ferry. . ,. 126 

Rout of Rebel Cavalry 127 



CONTENTS. y 

I'AGE. 

Second Battle of Bull Run 127 

South Mountain and Antietam 128 

Battle of Cloyd Mountain 129 

Muster-out 130 

Reunion , 130-139 

Ninety-Fourth Regiment, O. V. I. 

Organization . , 140 

Fight With a Scouting Party < 141 

Falling Back to Lexington '. 142 

One Dollar a Drink for Water 143 

Fighting at Stone River, Chickamauga, etc 144 

Mustered Out i45 

'One Hundred and Tenth Regiment, O. V. I. 

Organization 146 

Pursuit of Lee , 147 

Fighting in the Wilderness . 148 

Battle of Monocacy 149 

Battle of Winchester 1 50 

Assault Before Petersburg. 151 

Mustered Out 151 

Song — Keifer Leads the Van 152 

Forty-Fourth Regiment, O. V. L 

Organized 1 54 

Retreat to the Kanawha. ... I5S 

Re-organized as Eighth Ohio Cavalry I57 

Mustered Out 1 58 

Tenth Ohio Battery. 

Organized , 159 

Battle of Corinth 160 



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PAGE. 

A Clever Maneuver i6l 

Kennesaw Mountain i6j 

Officers 164 

Mustered Out 164 

Reunion 164-167 

One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Regiment, O. V. I. 

Organized 168 

Skirmish With McNeil's Battalion 168 

Battle of New Creek 169 

Mustered Out 169' 

Fifty-Fourth Regiment, O. V, I. 

Organized 170 

Battle of Pittsburg Landing 170 

Battle at Chickasaw Bayou 171 

Engaged at Vicksburg 171 

Pursuit of Hood 172 

Mustered Out , 173 

Seventeenth Regiment, O. V. I. 

Dr. John Turnbull 1 74 

Thirty-Fourth Regiment, O. V. I. 

Organized 175 

Battle of Fayetteville 176 

Colonel Toland Killed at Wytheville 177 

The Lynchburg Raid I79 

Battle of Winchester 181 

Pursuit of the Rebels . 183 

Attack on Beverly 184 

Consolidated With the Thirty-Sixth Ohio 185, 



CONTENTS. II 



PAGE. 



One Hundred and Eighty-Fourth Regiment, O. V. I. 

Organized i86 

Encounters With Guerrillas l86" 



ROSTERS. 



Seventy-Fourth .' 188-212: 

Twelfth 213-216 

Ninety-Fourth 217-222 

One Hundred and Tenth 223-224 

Forty-Fourth 225 

Tenth Ohio Battery '. 226-230 

One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth 231-240 

Fifty-Fourth, 241 

Thirty-Fourth ,. 242-243 

One Hundred and Eighty-Fourth 244-245 

Third New York Cavalry 246 

First Ohio Regular Infantry 247 

Errata — Officers of Seventy-Fourth 248 

Anecdotes and Incidents. 249 

Closing Scenes of the War 291 



INTRODUCTION. 



In the fall of 1861, the people of Greene County, realizing 
to some extent the magnitude of the war in which the country 
was then engaged (the southern states, all save Maryland and 
Kentucky, marshaling their entire strength, fully equipped with 
arms stolen from the General Government, for the destruction 
of the Union ; the North, without a single exception, meeting 
them with an equal force upon the bloody field of battle, in 
defense of the Union), and being anxious to show, at the end 
of the war, a bright chapter in its history, proposed to raise an 
entire regiment of volunteers, to be known as the ''Greene 
County Regiment." Hardly had a day passed after the battle- 
cry had sounded from Sumter, when, at a war-meeting held in 
the old Firemen's Hall in the city of Xenia, the organization of 
two companies for the defense of the nation's capital was com- 
menced. These being speedily completed and officered, with 
Captains John W. Lowe and A\. Galloway at their head, hast- 
ened to Columbus. The city of Washington having by this 
time become sufficiently guarded, they were sent to Camp Den- 
nison, and were among the first to lay out the camp and begin 
the erection of camp-buildings. At the close of their three 
months' service they re-enlisted, and became a 'part of that well- 
known and hard-fighting regiment, the Twelfth Ohio, at the head 
of which fell the brave Colonel Lowe. 

After the ever-memorable departure of these two noble 
companies, the work of enlistment continued. Other squads and 



14 INTRODUCTION. 

companies, composed of men from shop, plow, and exchange, 
were continually leaving the county and joining regiments 
forming in other parts of the state, thus leaving this county 
without its proper credit. Hence at a meeting of half a dozen 
or more of the citizens of Xenia, held late one evening in the 
auditor's room of the court-house, it was resolved to form a 
■Greene County regiment. A committee was appointed, consist- 
ing of Revs. R. D. Harper, P. C. Prugh, Judge Winans, and 
Hugh Carey, Esq., who were to proceed immediately to James- 
town, and, if possible, prevail upon a company, composed of 
the best men of that place and vicinity, organized under 
Captain Ballard, and chafing for the field, to remain in the 
county for the time, and take the post of honor in the new 
regiment. This company had already offered its services to 
General Fremont, then at the head of the army in Missouri. 

The delegation proceeded, the next day, -to Jamestown, 
held a consultation with the company, and proposed that they 
should immediately go into camp at Xenia and become the 
nucleus of the county regiment, the committeemen pledging 
themselves to use every possible effort in speedily filling it up. 

After a few earnest speeches the company yielded, recon- 
sidered their former purpose, and in a few weeks were in camp. 
The pleasant memories that still cluster around the scenes of that 
winter, in which soldiers and citizens happily mingled, meetings 
of prayer and praise, both in and out of camp, public days of 
fasting and feasting, speeches, parties, and concerts, will not 
soon be forgotten by those who, just as winter began to break, 
were "left behind." 

No truer patriots than were these ever lived. No braver 
men ever fought. And Corporal Owens has done good service 
to both county and regiment in writing their history. 

The readiness with which this regiment enlisted and marched 
to the field, the manner in which it fought, the many bloody 



INTRODUCTION. 15 

battles it won in the great struggle of freedom for the nation and 
the world, its re enlistment of those who survived after having 
spent three long years of the most intense labor in marchings 
and fightings, imposing itself all the while as a wall of fire 
between our enemies and our homes, standing again and again 
in the very presence of death, should never be forgotten. The 
author of this little book has done much toward making all this 
a part of living history in the nation's struggle to free itself from 
the "accursed thing." In this he makes no attempt at display, 
but proposes, in a plain, simple way, to give a sketch of those 
scenes and actions in which his own regiment was engaged, 
together with a brief account of the other organizations to which 
Greene County contributed her men and means. 

We bespeak for this little, unassuming companion a place, 
not only among the survivors and friends of the old Seventy- 
fourth, but in the families and homes of the county as well. 

P. C. P. . 



H[ISTO«Y 



Seventy-Fourth Regiment, 0. V. L 



CHAPTER I. 



In October, 1861, the organization of the Seventy- fourth 
O. V. I. was commenced. Its rendezvous was Camp Lowe, 
in the old fair ground, Xenia, named in honor of Colonel John 
W. Lowe, who fell at Carnifax Ferry, Virginia, in the early 
part of the war. The regiment was organized to the extent 
of seven companies, at Camp Lowe; but on arriving at Camp 
Chase the following February, three more companies were 
added, making the complement, and aggregating nine hundred 
and seventy- eight men. 

The regiment was officered as follows : Granville Moody, 
colonel commanding; Alexander Von Schro^^der, lieutenant 
colonel; A. S. Ballard, major; I. R. Brelsford, surgeon, etc. 
(See roster at the end of the book.) The duty of the regiment 
at Camp Chase was, guarding prisoners. Colonel Moody was 
appointed post-commander. 

On arriving at Columbus the regiment was (juartered the 
first night in the state capitol. The next day it marched out 
to Camp Chase, after being reviewed by Governor Todd. 
Whatever may be said to the contrary, the prisoners there 
were well cared for. The writer was detailed several times to 



18 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

help erect tents, etc. They had plenty to eat, and comfortable 
quarters. The regiment remained at Camp Chase until April 
20th, when they were ordered to Nashville, Tennessee, under 
command of Lieutenant Colonel Von Schrceder — Colonel 
Moody remaining at Camp Chase. 

On arriving at Nashville the regiment marched through 
the city, and encamped near the river, remaining there only 
a short time, when they were ordered to move camp. They 
camped in a beautiful grove, about one mile south of the city, 
which was called Camp Tod, in honor of Governor Todd. 
Colonel Von Schrceder was a strict disciplinarian — having 
been a Prussian officer — he would not allow the men even to 
spit on dress parade. While in command at Camp Tod his 
wife visited him. He had issu--'i strict orders that not a man 
should leave camp after a.ceruiin hour in the evening — as 
some of the boys Avere in the habit of frequenting the city 
until a late hour, and then coming into camp in a state of 
intoxication. 

One day he made arrangements with some of the citizens 
to take tea with them at a certain time. Accordingly he and 
his wife rode up to the gate, when he was halted by the guard, 
who told him that he had orders from Colonel Von Schrceder 
not to let a man pass after a certain hour — it being then 
after that hour. "Well, but," says he, "I am Colonel Von 
Schrceder." "I don't know who in the h — 1 you are," says 
the guard, "you can't pass here. " "Well," says the colonel, 
"I'll have that order changed in the morning," and turned 
around and rode back to his quarters. The next morning he 
sent for the guard who was at the gate at the time he wanted 
to pass out. The guard approached him with much fear and 
trembling, no doubt expecting to be severely dealt with, for 
the colonel looked at him with a stern countenance, and spoke 
in a very harsh manner, which frightened the poor fellow still 



'. THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 19 

worse. "You are the man that wouldn't let me out of camp 
last evening!" *'Well — well— colonel, I — I — had orders not 
to let any one pass, and— and — I thought I must obey orders." 
The colonel then changed his voice, and spoke in a very 
pleasant manner, and said, "You did right. I wish all my 
men were as good soldiers as you are; we would then have 
no trouble. I'll promote you to a corporal." 

After remaining in camp a short time, a detachment of 
the regiment was ordered on a scout over the Cumberland 
Mountains, or at least as far as McMinville. That was the first 
experience many in the regiment had in the toils, hardships, 
and fatigues of the march. Part of the regiment was left 
behind, being detailed on picket duty. Standing picket then 
was rather a pleasure and a pastime, there being no enemy 
near ; and in the warm season of the year we were plentifully 
supplied with milk, potatoes, honey, etc., which were generally 
pretty easy of access — the forest furnishmg mulberries, and 
the orchards cherries, plums, etc. Although the policy then 
was to guard rebel property, yet it was not always guarded. 
While on picket we enjoyed many luxuries, of which many 
times afterward we were deprived. We passed sixteen days 
thus very pleasantly, until the return of the balance of the 
regiment. 

July 1st the regiment — or four companies of the same — 
were ordered to march to Lebanon, Tennessee, thirty miles 
from Nashville. We passed the Hermitage, the former residence 
of Andrew Jackson, and we saw the monument erected to his 
memory, underneath which Hes the ashes of the hero of Orleans. 
On the march we gathered blackberries, which grew in immense 
quantities on each side of the road. The four companies were 
under the command of Major Ballard. On this march the boys 
did some foraging, by killing hogs, for which offense they were 
arrested and confined in jail in Lebanon. The indignation of 



20 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

the boys was very great at this act. They threatened to tear 
the jail down, and I have no doubt would have done so, had 
not the prisoners been released promptly. 

The regiment was quartered in the spacious college building 
at Lebanon — the same that John Morgan and his men occupied 
previous to our arrival. It was a very dirty place, but by hard 
labor, washing, and scrubbing, we made it fit for soldiers to 
quarter in. We spent the Fourth of July at Lebanon. It 
was a very dull day. Our duty while there was light We 
l)erformed some picket duty, and had dress parade in the 
afternoon. The balance of the time was spent in loafing about 
the building, reading, writing letters home, or going out for 
blackberries, etc. We also formed a glee club, and used to 
serenade Union families — when we could find them out. One 
of our picket-posts was near the residence of ex-Governor 
Campbell. We went one evening to serenade him. We had 
just concluded one song — I think it was the ''Star Spangled 
Banner '' — when the old governor came out bareheaded, and 
cordially invited us into the house. "Boys," said he, "it 
does me good to hear those good old patriotic songs." W^e 
sang several more songs. He then had his daughter play for 
us on the piano. We were about to take our leave, when he 
told us to wait a few minutes. In a short time his negro man 
came in with a large tray, or waiter, loaded with nice cake, 
fruits, cordial, etc. He told us to help ourselves, and we did 
so. There were some excellent Union families in and around 
Lebanon, who hailed our approach with joy. 

On the 10th of July our camp was thrown into considerable 
excitement, by the rumor that the rebel cavalry were advancing 
on us. But as feeble as we 'vere, we commenced making 
preparations for defense. Our force consisted of four companies 
.of infantry, and part of a regiment of cavajry. On the 11th I 
was on picket, and was relieved at 0:00 a. m. of the 12th — 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 21 

no enemy yet. On the 13th we received marching orders for 
Nashville. It was about eleven o'clock at night when we 
received the order to march, and by twelve o'clock we were 
all packed up, armed, and equipped, and in line. While 
marching out of town ail was still as the grave ; the quiet of 
the citizens was not disturbed ; no sound of martial music ; no 
colors flying — nought could be heard save the heavy tramp of 
the soldiers, as they marched out, almost on the double quick ; 
and by the time the gray Hght appeared in the eastern horizon, 
we were sixteen miles out on the road to Nashville, when we 
halted a short time, and got a bite to eat, and by ten o'clock 
we were in Nashville, having marched thirty miles. That was 
the time the rebel, Forrest, was expected to make an attack on 
Nashville. It was a very hot day. Some of the boys came 
near 'being exhausted, and one man had a sunstroke. We 
camped on College Hill, and that night we lay in Hne of battle 
for the first time. We were expecting to see the rebel cavalry 
dash on to us every minute. They came within about three or 
four miles, and burned a bridge, the light of which we could 
see. The next day — which was the 16th — Colonel Moody, 
with the detachment which was sent to Louisville, arrived. 
•An anecdote was told of him here, which I will relate : He 
came galloping into camp, ordering the men to fall in, inquiring 
at the same time for the drummer, but the drummer could not 
be found. Seizing the bass drum he commenced pounding it 
with his fist. Observing one man without a gun, he inquired 
of him where his gun was. The man told him he had none. 
The colonel then told him to get one. The man replied he 
could not. "Well, then," says the colonel, "get a club; 
you shall shoot." A strong guard was kept. The city was 
barricaded with wagons, cotton bales, etc. A cannon was in 
position on each street, and every precaution taken in case of 
an attack. In that case the few troops around Nashville would 



22 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

have had warm work, and the rebs would have met with a 
warm reception. This is the time when it was said the cele- 
brated prayer-meeting was held with Governor Andrew Johnson. 
A story went the rounds in the papers something like this : It 
was said that while Colonel Moody was praying, and as he 
waxed very fervent in his supplications, that the governor kept 
inching toward him, until at last, putting his arm around him 
(the colonel), said, ''Colonel, I believe in God and the 
Christian religion; but I'll be d — d if Nashville shall be taken." 
And it was not taken. 

A constant watch was kept for several days. Pickets were 
thrown out, and guards stationed on the road on which the 
attack was expected to be made. Several times it rained very 
hard, and wet the soldiers to the skin. It was very difficult to 
keep the muskets dry. The rain and mud were disagreeable. 
We remained at College Hill a short time. During the time we 
were in camp there we were reviewed by Major General Nelson. 

Soon after we changed camp, and camped on the farm of 
Major Lewis, near town. This we called Camp Lewis. Shortly 
after we received orders to march to Franklin, Tennessee. I 
think it was about the 1st of August when we started to 
Franklin. When within about two miles of Franklin we halted* 
for the night. The following incident occurred at that time, 
which I will relate : 

It is generally known that about that time orders were strict 
concerning rebel property, which was to be held sacred, the 
orders coming from one Buell. He was very careful to protect 
rebels fronf the assaults of the blue-coats upon henroosts, 
hog-pens, and potato-patches. The hero of this story, George- 
Snyder, was a good soldier. He obeyed orders, as a general 
rule, but could not see the sin of digging a few potatoes and 
having an ash-roast once in a while. It was George's fortune to 
be placed in charge of a pompous southern mansion and 



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THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 23 

surroundings. Vegetables were scarce, and Buell's orders 
plenty. George concluded to suspend one of the orders touching 
potatoes. Thereupon his bayonet became a potato-fork, and a 
few small, scrawny tubers were taken from the sacred soil, 
carefully roasted, and transferred to George's stomach. For the 
suspension of this order George was duly arrested, and taken, 
under guard, to Colonel Moody's head-quarters for examination. 
The owner accompanied the squad, swearing vengeance on poor 
Snyder. The pompous son of the South preferred his charges. 
Moody heard him, spoke of Buell's order, and the necessity of 
respecting the same, and reprimanded Snyder for presuming to 
suspend his commanding general's orders. Whereupon the 
southern nabob waxed wrathy and valiant. He said that such 
soldiers as Snyder were northern poltroons and cowards; that if 
it were not for the musket he carried he would have whipped 
him and kicked him off his premises ; and that he could whip 
half a dozen such fellows. This insulting language aroused 
Colonel Moody. He listened to the harangue and thought he. 
would give the brave son of the South a chance to clean George 
out. Thereupon he ordered Snyder as follows: •'* Lay down 
that musket, sir." George obeyed. " Take off that haversack." 
George dropped his sack. '* Unfasten that belt, sir." It was 
done. ^'Take off your coat." George shed his linen. " Now, 
sir, I release you from arrest. Step out and whip this brave 
scion of the South until I tell you to stop." This was the kind 
of order that George loved to obey, and he sprang back, a la 
Heenan, to the combat. But this the cowardly boaster had not 
bargained for. His eyes protruded ; his knees shook like 
Belshazzars ; his tongue refused to utter the words he would 
have said. Moody urged, insisted, and ordered Johnny to make 
good his boastful words. Snyder, cool, snappy, eager for the 
fight, was inviting him to " come on." But it was no go. The 
poor fellow had been trapped and could only back out squarely. 



2-4 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

His brother came forward and told the colonel that he (the 
speaker) was a senator of Tennessee and brother to the palsied 
victim, and urged Moody to stop the proceedings. The colonel 
assured Mr. Senator that he was doing all he could to bring the 
conflict to a close by having George Snyder conquer a peace ; 
and, moreover, that peace he would have, and that neither he 
nor his doughty brother should insult him or his men by calling 
them poltroons and cowards. Thus the orders of General Buell 
were respected and obeyed by George Snyder and liis colonel. 

We remained at Franklin about a month. The regiment 
was at that time guarding the Nashville & Columbia Railroad, 
the different companies being scattered along the road from 
Nashville to Columbia, Company C occupying Franklin. Colonel 
Moody's head-(]uarters were at Fr^inklin. While there we built 
stockades and did some guard duty. The court-house was 
occupied by the colonel, he having his head-quarters in it. It 
was barricaded by taking tlie large flat stones from off the yard 
and putting them in the windows, drilling port-holes in them. 

Colonel Moody was then acting as chaplain as well as 
colonel. Fie would command the regiment during the week 
and preach on Sunday. The citizens in and about the vicinity 
of Frankhn would come to hear him, althougli he would denounce 
them in such terms as only Colonel Moody could. 

We lived very well off the products of the country, such as 
apples, peaches, potatoes, and honey, all of which were plentiful. 

About the 1st of September we returned to Nashville. We 
took a train or two of cars, loaded with corn, to that city. 
When about half way, the train stopped, and the engineer 
Jumped from his engine and took to the woods, thinking, 
doubtless, that the train would be captured. But Colonel Moody 
said the train should go into Nashville if the men had to ])ush it 
in. However, a man was found who ran the train in. 

On arriving in the vicinity of Nashville we went into the 



THE SEVENTY- FOURTH. 25 

woods and camped. While there a man was cleaning his gun, 
when it was accidentally discharged, killing a negro. We stayed 
in camp only one night, when we received orders to change 
•camp. We then camped near the city, on the Franklin pike, 
where we remained a short time. 

A great many negroes were employed at that time, working 
on the fortifications around the city, especially Fort Negley, near 
our camp. I used to go to their meetings, which they held out 
of doors. One evening I attended a social meeting, when one 
old darkey arose to speak. The substance of his speech was as 
follows: "My bred'rin', you sees me gwine aroun' drivin' de 
cart. You do not know whedder Fse got religion or not; but 
God knows it. By an' by I'll be high up in heaven, an' dese 
wicked sinners will be low down in hell, where de blue blazes 
of damnashun will be bilin' out of dar noses." These negroes 
were very ignorant, making use of some very droll expressions. 

We then moved camp south of town, into a field where the 
weeds were nearly as high as one's head. This camp was called 
Camp Weeds. We stayed .there a few days and then moved a 
short distance, near the Hillsboro pike, not far from our old 
Camp Tod. This was about the time of the siege of Nashville, 
when our communication was cut off. We suffered considerably 
for want of rations. W^e could get none from the Government; 
and I have often thought since that the Government ought to 
have paid us, as we drew none from its coffers. But about all 
we could get to eat was what we could get in the county. 
Foraging parties were sent out every few days, well guarded — 
often a battery or two of artillery accompanying every expedition. 
Even then we were not supplied very plentifully. The most we 
got was corn, which had to go to feed the mules — sometimes a 
few sweet potatoes or pumpkins. (Jne day I ate nothing else 
but a small sweet potato. The reason was obvious — 1 could 
get nothing else. We named our camp "Starvation;" and in 



26 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

comparison to what we had been used to at home it was really 
starvation. 

After remaining there a while we moved into the Chattanooga 
Depot. The first day of our arrival was a very busy one, the 
boys all being engaged in making bunks. It reminded one of a 
large carpenter-shop, and all hands at work. Some of the boys 
bunked in old freight-cars. The soldiers suffered much from 
camp-diarrhea and flux, some of whom died. I will mention a 
few of them : Thomas Harp and William Frenderburg, of 
Company C, and Thomas Faulkner, of Company B, with, 
perhaps, some others. 

While here we were all called up before daylight, to drill, 
every morning, and many were the curses heaped upon the 
heads of the officers for this order. One morning we were all 
called up long before daylight and fell into line, and the order 
was given, '* Forward, march," no one knowing where we were 
going. We marched out about seven miles, and were ordered 
to halt. A skirmish line was formed, and we were ordered to 
advance. (It was ascertained beforehand that a band of rebels 
had been seen, but of course the regiment knew nothing of it.) 
The regiment advanced a short distance when the advance 
guard came on a squad of rebels. After a sharp little skirmish 
they drove them across the river, capturing a few and scattering 
the rest. The regiment then returned to camp. 

Orders were soon received to march toward Lebanon,. 
Tennessee. We marched out some seven miles and halted, 
where we remained a short time. Then we started back toward 
Nashville, and camped on Mill Creek. Here the Seventy-fourth 
commenced building a bridge across that stream, the rebels 
having burned the old one. ' This was about the middle of 
November, 1862. 

We were temporarily assigned to the command of Brigadier 
General Morgan. The general was a very plain-looking man. 



THE SEVENTY- FOURTH. 27 

He generally wore an old blouse, and did not look much like 
an officer. One day he visited the regiment to ascertain what 
progress they were making on the bridge. The men were then 
about placing a heavy piece of timber in position, when, 
observing that it was heavy to carry, the general seized hold of 
it and lifted until he was red in the face. It reminded me 
somewhat of General Washington and the corporal, although 
there was no corporal there giving commands. I suppose it is 
not necessary to repeat the story, as doubtless all my readers are 
acquainted with it. 

While there I saw a revolting sight. A negro having died 
in one of the out-houses, his body was found, one morning, with 
his nose and part of his face eaten off by rats. 

It was while we were' here that I received the sad news of 
the death of my father, Rev. G. B. Owens. I first heard of his 
sickness, then of his death. My readers may imagine my 
feelings — away from home fighting for my country, without the- 
privilege of visiting him in his last hours. Colonel Moody, in 
his sermon on the. next Sabbath, very touchingly referred to his 
death, which affected me deeply. 

About the last of November we again received orders to 
march before completing the bridge. We were ordered to Camp 
Hamilton, about seven miles from Nashville, near the Franklin 
pike. Our camp was on the farm of a Mr. Overton. Here the 
Army of the Cumberland was encamped, and reviewed by 
General Rosencranz. When he rode through the camp of the- 
Seventy- fourth he had something to say to each company. To 
Company C he said: "Boys, when you drill, drill like thunder. 
It is not the number of bullets you shoot, but the accuracy of 
the aim, that kills more men in battle." The object of this 
review was to ascertain what the men needed before going into 
battle. To an Irishman he said, "Well, Pat, what do yoUi 
want?" The Irishman replied, "If it *s all the same to you^ 



28 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

gineral, I want a furlough." The general, turning away, 
laughing, replied, "Well, Pat, you'll do." 

Near the camp was a large canebrake ; and the boys used 
to go at night, with torches, to kill robins, of which there were 
immense numbers. The light would blind them, and by taking 
a stick they could be easily killed. Colonel Neibling, of the 
Twenty-first Ohio Regiment, went into the brake one day and 
got lost. He had to climb a tree to see which way to get out. 
We had battalion drill frequently. 

On the 2(3th of December, 18G2, General Rosencranz 
marched from Camp Hamilton, in three columns, toward Mur- 
freesboro; General McCook with the right division, by the 
Nolensville pike; General Thomas with the center, by the 
Wilson pike ; and General Crittenden with the left on the 
•main Murfreesboro road. The country was hilly and rough, 
with thickets of cedar, intersected by small streams, with rocky, 
bluff banks. The road was rough and muddy, and it was only 
by the utmost efforts that the teams could be got through. 
General Negley, our division commander, frequently alighting 
from his horse, pulling off his coat, and rolling up his sleeves, 
would assist the teamsters in pulling through. Several times 
Colonel Moody would become impatient, urging us on as we 
struggled through the mud and rain, telling us that the fight 
would be over before we got there, as ever and anon we could 
hear the boom of cannon in advance of us. But 1 guess the 
colonel got enough of it. 

On the night of the 30th the pickets of both armies could 
sight each other by the light of burning dwellings. Constant 
skirmishing had been kept up all day, as General Rosencranz 
wished to discover the enemy. Occasionally a regiment 
advanced to clear a thicket ; or a battery opened fire for a shoi^t 
time. At one time a cannon-ball took off part of a man's 
head, who was standing within ten feet of the general, and 



THE SEVENTY- FOURTH. 20^ 

another fell among his escort. Our losses during the day, in 
these skirmishes, amounted to three hundred in killed and 
wounded. I am not speakmg now of the Seventy-Fourth, but 
the whole army. At night the weary soldiers threw themselves 
upon the cold ground, to snatch a brief repose, conscious that 
on the morrow they were to be actors in a bloody tragedy. 
Early on the morning of the 31st, General Rosencranz issued 
the following address to his army : 

"The general commanding desires to say to the soldiers of the 
Army of the Cuml^erland, that he was well pleased with their conduct 
yesterday. It was all that he could have wished for. He neither saw 
nor heard of any skulking. They behaved with the coolness and 
gallantry of veterans. He^ now feels perfectly confident, with God's- 
grace and their help, of striking this day a blow for the country — the 
most crushing, perhaps, which the rebellion has yet sustained. Soldiers J 
the eyes of the whole nation are upon you. The very fate of the nation 
may be said to hang on the issues of this day's battle. Be true, then, to 
yourselves; true to your own manly character and soldierly reputation ; 
true to the love of your dear ones at home, whose prayers ascend this 
day to God for your success. Be cool. T need not ask you to be brave. 
Keep ranks. Do not throw away your fire. Fire slowly, deliberately. 
Above all, fire low, and always be sure of your aim. Close readily in 
upon the enemy, and when you get within charging distance, rush upon 
him with the bayonet. Do this, and victory will certainly be yours. 
Recollect, that there are hardly any troops in the world that will stand a 
bayonet charge, and those who make it, therefore, are sure to win." 

On the morning of the 31st the army of General Rosencranz 
was in position on the field in the following order : McCook's 
command consisted of three divisions — Johnson's on the right,. 
Davis' in the center, and Sheridan's on the left, the latter 
somewhat withdrawn, and acting as a reserve for the south 
wing. The two divisions of Thomas, present on the field, held 
tlie center of the line — Negley on the right (in which division 
was the Seventy fourth) and Rousseau on the left. The left 
wing of the army, under Crittenden, was posted in the following 



30 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

order : Palmer's division on the right, Woods' in the center, 
and Van Cleve's on the extreme left. 

The rebel line of battle was formed with the command of 
Bishop Polk on the right, consisting of two divisions of Preston 
•Smith and Breckenridge ; Kirby Smith, with three divisions, 
held the center; and Hardee, with the three divisions of 
Cheatham, McCown, and " Withers, formed the right wing. 
This wing was strengthened on the night preceding the battle 
with the division of Clairborne. In numbers the armies were 
unequal, as one of the strongest divisions of the Union army, 
Mitchell's, was left to occupy Nashville. The field of battle 
was mostly rolling ground, with patches of woodland. The pike 
and railroad ran near each other, through the lines of battle, 
and the ground on the right, where McCook was posted, was a 
dense succession of cedar thickets, open spaces of rocky ground, 
belts of timber, and small fields. A number of houses were 
situated in different parts of the field. 

Without further describing the relative positions of the 
army, I will proceed to give a faint description of the battle : 
At daylight the batteries of Sheridan's division shelled the rebels 
in a piece of woods in front, and the division advanced. It 
was immediately assailed with terrible energy by the rebels, who 
were three times repulsed. They made a fourth attempt, with 
re-enforcements, and the division was forced back. But the 
energy of Sill and other gallant officers soon rallied the troops, 
and the field in front was cleared of the enemy. General Sill 
had fallen, pierced through the brain by a musket-ball. The 
whole force of the onset was now brought against McCook's third 
division, commanded by Sheridan. It fought until one fourth 
of its members lay bleeding and dying on the field. Then it 
gave way, and all three of its divisions were hurled back 
together into the immense series of cedar thickets, which, 
skirting the turnpike, extended far off" to the right. 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 31 

General Rosencranz, on hearing of the disaster to his right 
wing, instantly set himself at work to retrieve it. Brigades and 
batteries from the divisions of Rousseau, Negley, and Palmer, 
were ordered to the right, to check the progress of the enemy, 
and rally the fugitives. The infantry were rapidly massed in 
an array of imposing strength along the turnpike, and facing 
the woods through which the rebels were advancing. Still 
the broken divisions of McCook disputed the ground while 
retreating, and deeds of heroism were performed by officers and 
men in those dark thickets. But in spite of the desperate 
struggle which marked every fresh advance of the enemy, in 
spite of the heroic sacrifice of life on the part of the officers and 
soldiers of the Union army, the rebels still steadily advanced 
and came nearer to the turnpike. Nearly two miles and a half 
had the right wing been driven, and all the re-enforcements that 
had been hurried into the woods to sustain it, had failed. The 
roar of cannon, the crashing of shot through the trees, the 
bursting of shell, and the continuous roll of musketry, all 
mingled in one tremendous volume of sound, which rolled on 
nearer and nearer to the turnpike, where the genius and vigor of 
Rosencranz had massed the forces that were to receive the 
enemy when he should emerge from the woods, in pursuit of 
our retreating battalions. At last the long lines of the enemy, 
rank upon rank, charged from the woods. A sheet of flame 
burst from the Union ranks, a crash rent the air, and the 
artillery shook the earth. The foremost lines of the rebel host 
were literally swept away, and then both armies were enveloped 
in a vast cloud of smoke. For ten minutes the thunder of battle 
burst forth from the cloud, and when our battalions advanced 
they found no rebels between the turnpike and woods, except 
the wounded, the dying, and the dead. The soil was red with 
blood, for within a brief space of time the slaughter had been 
awful, our troops having repulsed the rebel left, pushed into the 



32 fJREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

woods after them, and drove them back over the ground we had 
first occupied. 

It was eleven o'clock when Hardee was repulsed. In the 
meantime while the battle was raging on the right, an attack was- 
made upon Palmer's division. The rebel's advanced with great 
impetuosity, but were driven back with terrible loss. There was 
now a lull in the storm, and scarcely a volley of musketry or 
boom of cannon was heard for three quarters of an hour. Some 
hoped that these bloody scenes were ended for the day ; but the 
rebel leaders, disappointed by their failure to penetrate to our 
camp by way of the right wing, were preparing for a blow at the 
center. All the reserves were attached to the center of their 
army, under Polk; and Bragg, in person, placed himself at the 
head of the columns. And now was presented an imposing 
spectacle. The nature of the ground in this part of the field 
was such that every movement of either army could be seen. 
A fierce cannonading up the turnpike announced the coming 
onset, and from the very woods out of which the rebel cavalry 
issued on Monday evening, the first line of battle now sallied 
forth. It came on in magnificent order, and stretching away 
diagonally across a great sloping field, its length seemed 
interminable. At a sufficient interval another line deployed 
into the open ground parallel with the first, and ere the forward 
battalions were engaged, a third line of battle came forth 
from the same woods. It seemed that our feeble lines in that 
direction must be crushed by the weight of these immense 
masses of living and moving men. But the ever-watchful eye 
of Rosencranz had detected the rebel design even before their 
first line of l)attle emerged from the trees. The least-exhausted 
troops of the left and center were hurried forward on the double- 
fjuick, to combat this new effort of the enemy ; and even from 
the extreme left, where Van Cleve was posted, a brigade was 
brought over to take part in the defense. 



IHE SEVENTY- FOURTH. ^^3 

The same formidable array of batteries and battalions again 
confronted the foe, as that upon which the violence of Hardee's 
corps had spent itself, and similar results followed. Almost 
simultaneously a sheet of fire leaped forth from each of the 
opposite lines, and for a few minutes both stood like walls of 
stone, discharging their deadly muskets into each other's 
bosoms. Then the rebels attempted to charge, but a storm of 
lead and iron hail burst into their faces and all around them, 
sweeping them down by the hundreds. If once the Union 
soldiers wavered, it was only for a moment, and in forty minutes 
from the time the first rebel line marched forth, all three of 
them had been dashed to pieces, and the survivors of the 
conflict, flying in wild confusion over the slope, were disappear- 
ing in the depths of the woods. 

The battle of the day was over. Until four o'clock the 
rebels continued to fire a cannon in the direction of Murfrees- 
boro, as though in angry protest against their repulse. But 
when this ceased there was silence all over the field, so deep by 
contrast with the tumult of the battle that had raged all day, that 
it seemed oppressive and supernatural. The battle was over ; 
but who can describe the sufferings which followed ! The night 
air was piercingly cold, and in the midst of these gloomy forests 
of pine and cedars, where the night winds sighed through the 
leafless branches, singing, as it were, a requiem to the hundreds 
of freezing, bleeding, and dying men whom no human hand 
could ever succor — perhaps even at that very hour their fond 
wives or loving mothers at home were on their knees offering up 
their petitions to God for their loved ones on the battle-field. 
Ah, could they have known their situation then, and had it in 
their power, how they would have gone, with rapid speed, to 
administer to their wants. Oh, how often on that long and 
dreary night of the 31st of December, 1802, as I lay wounded 
on the ground, at the field hospital, with no covering but part 



34 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

of an old blanket — which Sergeant A. B. Cosier kindly pro- 
cured for me — did I think of my loving wife and dear mother 
at home. You, my dear friends, who never participated in the 
toils, sufferings, and hardships of a soldier's life, know but little 
about it, only as you have read or heard soldiers tell of it. Yet 
I am sorry to say that there are some who are unwilling to give 
the soldier a small pension. If every soldier that fought and 
bled for his country was to receive a pension, he never could be 
paid for what he has suffered. Shame on the narrow, contracted 
soul — if he has a soul — that begrudges pensioning the soldiers. 
The rebel pickets advanced at night to the edge of the 
woods skirting the open ground which was the scene of Hardee's 
terrible repulse. The hostile lines of battle were probably a 
thousand yards apart. The intervening space was covered with 
wounded, who could not be caried off. He who chose to risk 
it could crawl carefully up to the edge of the wood, and hear 
shrieks, cries, and groans of the wounded men who were lying 
by hundreds among the trees. The men in our advance-line lay 
down, as well as they could, upon ground over which the storm 
of battle had swept. It was difficult to distinguish the bodies of 
the sleepers from the corpses. Living and dead were slumbering 
peacefully together, with this difference : the one was to rise 
again to renew the conflict, the other had fought his last battle 
on earth. There were places that night where sleep came not 
to steep the senses in gentle forgetfulness. The poor soldier, 
whom the bullets had not reached, could gather a few sticks or 
cornstalks for a bed, clasp his faithful musket in his arms, with his 
blanket around him — if he were so fortunate as to have one — 
and sleep ; but not that deep, profound slumber had he been at 
home in his warm bed. Ever and anon he would awake, his 
frame shivering with the bitter cold. He could build no fires, 
for that would reveal our position to the enemy. But the 
mangled hero, lying on the field or in the hos])ital, knew no 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 35 

repose; and to those who felt themselves maimed for life the 
keen mental anguish must have been even more intolerable than 
physical pain. 

On Thursday morning tlie sun arose without clouds, but 
along the eastern horizon was a broad zone of mist and fog 
through which the great luminary looked red and bloody, as if 
in sympathy with the horrors of the battle-field. It was just 
eight o'clock when the roar of cannon re-commenced, with a 
terrible significance unknown a few days before. A skirmish 
had begun between the pickets in front of Palmer's lines and 
those of the enemy. Our batteries immediately commenced 
shelling the woods from which the rebel fire proceeded. Two 
dozen pieces of the enemy's artillery opened in reply, and 
having by this time accurately obtained the range of the elevated 
ground between the pike and railroad upon which so many of 
our troops were massed, their guns were worked with greater 
effect than ever before. Every form of shell, shrajDnell, round 
shot, spherical case and oblong shot were hurled in most un- 
pleasant confusion over the field. Our infantry, unable to take 
any part in this terrible duel, lay close upon the ground, the 
fiery missiles continually whizzing and bursting over their heads, 
and tearing up the earth among them and around them. It is 
wonderful that so few were injured by this iron tempest; yet 
there was scarcely a regiment all along the center that did not 
have some of its members killed or wounded. The Seventy- 
fourth was not the only regiment that lost members. Several 
Greene County boys in other regiments were killed and wounded. 
I have reference here to Greene County soldiers. I wish I had 
a list of all soldiers that were killed or wounded. But as Major 
Peters said at the reunion of the Seventy-fourth at Xenia, Sep- 
tember 20, 1883, we never will know to a certainty. Some 
never could be found. 

The Eighth Indiana Battery, Lieutenant Estepp command- 



36 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

ing, was moved nearest the rebel lines, and did great service in 
finally silencing the enemy's guns. Several of its brave men 
were wounded, one third of the horses were disabled, and some 
of the pieces were drawn to the rear by hand. This day, like 
the preceding Tuesday, passed off in a series of skirmishes. 
Late in the afternoon a body of rebel cavalry appeared on a 
rising ground in front, but Colonel Loomis turned a couple of 
his Parrott guns in that direction, and a stampede quickly fol- 
lowed. The army passed another uncomfortable and cheerless 
night upon the battle-field ; but General Rosencranz was not 
idle. During the night he sent the division of Van Cleve across 
the river on the left, where it got into position. 

Early on Friday morning the thunder of rebel artillery called 
the troops to arms. Our batteries soon replied to theirs, and 
the fierce cannonading was kept up for half an hour, and then 
ceased on both sides. During this time one rebel gun was dis- 
mounted, and the battery to which it belonged, silenced. Hour 
after hour passed by and no earnest attempt was made by the 
rebels to renew the battle. At last, about four o'clock in the 
afternoon, a heavy cannonade, that had opened On the left, was 
followed by a deafening crash of musketry, and the whole army 
at once comprehended that the battle was renewed by an attack 
on Van Cleve's division, on the other side of Stone River. 
Bragg had massed three of his divisions, the whole under the 
command of Breckenridge, and hurled them against the division 
of Van Cleve. Our brigades struggled for a time with great 
bravery against the tremendous odds; but being literally over- 
whelmed by superior numbers, two of them gave way. The 
third held its ground for awhile, but the prospect of bemg sur- 
rounded brought on a panic. Then it broke with the others and 
fell back to and across the river. The rebels made preparations- 
to follow, but by this time Negley, who had been hurried over 
from the center to re-enforce Van Cleve, suddenly confronted 



THE SEVENTY- FOURTH. 37 

them with his compact Unes of battle. The divisions of Wood 
and Davis, and the Pioneer Brigade of Morton, were placed in 
position by General Rosencranz, to support Negley, and open 
with all their batteries upon the host of Breckenridge. The 
rebel batteries were also in commanding position. The rebels 
soon recoiled under the terrific fire poured into them by Negley's 
division, and fell back from the river, followed, however, by our 
brave troops, who forded the stream and made a lodgment on 
the opposite side in a narrow strip of timber, destitute of under- 
brush and bounded by a rail fence. At this fence the rebels 
rallied, and as our men ascended the bank tJiey were greeted by 
a storm of bullets, which, for a moment, checked their advance. 
By the exertions of Stanley and Miller the division was formed 
rapidly upon the bank, and with a tremendous shout they 
charged the rebel lines. The latter wavered and then broke. 
The ground over which they retreated was a low, wooded one. 
Our troops followed closely in the pursuit. The Seventy-eighth 
Pennsylvania captured the flag of the Twenty-sixth Tennessee. 
The divisions of Wood and Davis followed that of Negley. The 
flying regiments of Breckenridge debouched from the woods 
upon open cornfields, in the edge of which their batteries of 
fourteen guns were in position. A charge was made upon these, 
and the Nineteenth Illinois captured three guns Colonel Miller's 
<:ommand took a battery, the Seventy-fourth Ohio capturing it. 
The rebels again fled, followed by a. tempest of bullets, which 
covered the ground with wounded and dead. Beyond was a 
dense forest, reaching to the town of Murfreesboro. It was now 
night, and Negley deemed it expedient to enter the woods at 
that time. From the cornfields to the river the distance was 
about one mile, and within that space the evidences of the terri- 
ble carnage were everywhere visible. Nearly one thousand 
rebels were killed outright in this attack, and the woods re- 
bounded with the shrieks and groans of the wounded and dying. 



38 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

At twelve o'clock that night it commenced raining, and the 
unsheltered soldiers had a hard time of it. When Saturday- 
morning came it was still raining, and the men had barely time 
to prepare their rations before they were called to arms by the 
roar of artillery on the center. An onset had been made on the 
Forty-second Indiana, which was out on picket-duty. The men 
behaved well, but met with considerable loss. All day the rain 
poured down ; but General Rosencranz was busy guarding every 
point with hastily-constructed works. A slow advance toward 
the enemy was made by a series of rifle-pits. A brick house, 
the inside of which- had been burned out, sheltered the enemy's 
sharp-shooters. General Rosencranz soon removed the annoy- 
ance by the aid of Loomis' and Guenther's batteries. In ten 
minutes the walls were leveled to the ground. Near this house 
the enemy had constructed rifle-pits, from which they fired upon 
our pickets. It was determined to drive them out, and Colonel 
John Beatty was selected to lead the storming party. Taking 
with him the Third Ohio, his own regiment, and the Eighty- 
eighth Indiana — Colonel Humphreys — he advanced with the 
utmost intrepidity, drove out the enemy at the point of the 
bayonet, and triumphantly held the works. Another night was 
passed on the battle-field, and the soldiers awoke on Sunday 
morning to find the ground covered with snow. As the day 
advanced the snow melted, and the mud became very disagree- 
able. It was a glad moment when the announcement was made 
to the army that Bragg had retreated, with all his force, from 
Murfreesboro, and that the Union army would march forward 
into the town. 

On Sunday, January 4th, General Rosencranz entered 
Murfreesboro. The day will be a memorable one in our 
country's annals. 

Our losses in the battle of Stone River were as follows : 
Officers killed, 88; officers wounded, 367; men killed, 1,386; 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 39 

men wounded, 646. Total, 8,287. ' Loss in Pioneer Brigade,. 
48; loss in cavalry, 150 — making a total loss of 8,485. In 
addition to these losses, the number set down as missing 
amounted to 2,800. 

The rebel loss was estimated at over 14,000 in killed and 
wounded. Some four thousand of our wounded men were 
removed to Nashville, and two thousand were placed in hospitals 
at Murfreesboro. Atout fifteen hundred of the rebel wounded 
were left at the latter place when Bragg retreated. 

Large numbers of surgeons proceeded immediately from 
the North to these two points, to attend to the sufferers, accom- 
panied by agents of state and general government sanitary 
commissions. The following extract from a letter written by 
one of these gentlemen, Mr. Sessions, who accompanied the 
corps of surgeons, and directed the work of the sanitary com- 
mission from Columbus, Ohio, gives us an idea of the condition 
of our own and also of the rebel hospitals after this sanguinary 
battle. The women of the North can also see a small portion 
of the beneficent results of this association, flowing from their 
noble efforts in establishing and sustaining societies to aid the 
suffering soldiers. Mr. Sessions writes from Murfreesboro, eight 
days after the battle, as follows: '-We arrived here last Satur- 
day, after a pleasant ride in an ambulance, from Nashville — 
thirty miles. We saw, everywhere, the effects of war, and that 
two large armies had skirmished and fought most of the way. 
For fifteen miles nearly every house was burned, and all looked 
devastation and ruin. One village — Lavergne — was burned; 
and near by were the ruins of our large army train, burned by 
the rebels on the first day of the battle. Horses and mules 
burned to death gave one a horrid picture of war. For the 
remaining fifteen miles, every house was occupied as a hospital, 
where our poor soldiers are suffering from wounds, and the loss 
of limbs, and the groans of the dying are heard as you pass." 



40 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

At Murfreesboro, Mr. Sessions visited the rebel hospitals, 
which he found in charge of a former acquaintance of his from 
the North. He says: ''I visited, with him, the rebel hospitals 
under his charge, and found them wanting many things — indeed 
almost everything to make them comfortable. Men badly 
wounded were lying upon the hard floor, without straw, because 
it could not be obtained from us ; and the poor men were calling 
out for something to eat. I asked him why this was so. He 
replied, 'Because we have not got it to give them.' He was 
kind and attentive to the men, and was doing all in his power to 
make them comfortable. The other rebel hospitals were in a 
wretched condition — filthy, and not half cared for by their 
surgeons. Gangrene was making its appearance from the 
wounds. There are about fifteen hundred wounded rebels here. 
In a large church, with upper and lower rooms occupied by 
them, they had only one candle to see to attending several 
hundred men during the night; and one of our party took some 
over to them. . I understand they took away or burned all their 
hospital stores when they evacuated the city ; and the first thing, 
on our entrance, they made a requisition for everything on our 
medical director." Another instance of their unscrupulousness 
in throwing the whole burden of providing for them on us. 

In reference to our own hospitals he says : " We have about 
two thousand wounded here and in the vicinity, and all are well 
cared for — a better supply of hospital stores and medical sup- 
plies than there were either at Port Donaldson, Shiloh, or 
Antietam. The government supplies were good, and the United 
States Sanitary Commission, under the direction of Dr. J. S. 
Newberry, western secretary, at Louisville, had forwarded sixty 
or seventy tons of all kinds of clothing, dried and canned fruit, 
concentrated beef and chickens, etc., necessary for the comfort 
of the sick and wounded. Dr. Read, their inspector, with his 
assistants, was busy night and day distributing articles to the 



THE SEVENTY- B'OURTH. 41 

surgeons and hospitals, arranging and controlling the operations, 
removing our own wounded from rebel hospitals, etc. Eight 
wagon-loads of supplies were sent on Monday, and seven on 
Wednesday, from Nashville, and a large amount distributed among 
our four thousand wounded in Nashville. It was an exceedingly 
gratifying sight to see boxes of sanitary goods, at the different hos- 
pitals, with the imprint of ' Soldiers' Aid Society, Cleveland,' boxes 
marked with contents from * Soldiers' Aid Society, Columbus,' 
and other places. Our soldiers think, as one said, they come 
from God's country." 

As evidence that the benevolent labors of the United States 
Sanitary Commission were properly appreciated by the army, we 
quote the following letter from the Rev. Granville Moody, then 
colonel of the Seventy-fourth Ohio Regiment. It was addressed 
to Dr. Read, the inspector of the commission : 

Sir: — I desire to express to you, and through you to the generous 
and patriotic donors sustaining the Sanitary Commission, my high regard 
and appreciation of the works of love in which they are engaged. As I 
have visited the various hospitals in this place and looked upon the pale 
faces of the sufferers, and marked the failing strength of many a manly 
form, I have rejoiced in spirit as I have seen your benevolence embodied 
in substantial food, delicacies, and clothing, judiciously and systematically 
distributed by those who are officially connected with the army. If the 
donors could only know how much good their gifts have done, and could 
hear the blessings invoked upon their unknown friends by the suffering 
ones, they would more fully realize the divine proverb, "It is more 
blessed to give than to receive." We would advise all who wish to 
extend the hand of charity so as to reach the suffering officers and 
soldiers who have stood " between their loved homes and foul war's 
desolation," to commit their offerings to the custody of " the United 
States Sanitary Commission," an organization authorized by the secretary 
of war and the surgeon general, having the confidence of the army, and 
affording a direct and expeditious medium of communication with the 
several divisions of the army free of expense to the donors, and entirely 
reliable in its character. It is also worthy of special note that the goods 



42 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

intrusted to the commission are distributed to those \s'ho are actually sick 
or convalescent; and this is under the scrutiny of the most responsible 
persons in its employ, and through regularly established official agencies 
in the army. If the patriotic donors of the several states would direct 
their contributions into this channel, it vi^ould save much expense of 
agencies, blend the sympathies of Union men of the several states, and 
prevent unpatriotic distinctions in the patients in the hospitals, who are 
from every regiment, from every state. Side by side they fought and 
were wounded, and side by side they suffer in hospitals ; and the commis- 
sion, through appropiate agencies, extends its aid alike to the sons of 
Virginia and Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee, 
Michigan and Missouri, thus giving prominence to our cherished national 
motto, ''We are many in one." As an illustration, the other day an 
agent of a Wisconsin society came to a hospital with sanitary goods for 
Wisconsin soldiers, and went along the wards, making careful discrimina- 
tion in behalf of Wisconsin soldiers, but soon saw it was an ungracious 
taskj and handed over his goods to the United States Sanitary Commis- 
sion. Learning this, one of the Wisconsin soldiers said, "I'm glad of 
that; for it made me feel so bad when my friends gave me those good 
things the other day and passed by that Illinois boy on the next bed 
there, who needed them just as much as I did. But I made it square 
with him, for I divided what I got with him." Brave, noble fellow ! His 
was the true spirit of a soldier of the United States. We have a common 
country, language, religion, interest, and destiny ; and we should closely 
weave the web of our unity, so that the genius of liberty may, like Him 
'• who went about doing good," wear a " seamless garment." We believe 
in the constitutional rights of states, but most emphatically believe in our 
glorious nationality, which, like the sun amidst the stars, has a surpassing 
glory and is of infinitely greater importance, and should be cherished in 
every appropriate form of development. 

GRANVILLE MOODY, 
Colonel Commanding Seventy-fourth Regiment. 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 4:3- 



OFFICIAL REPORT OF GENERAL ROSENCRANZ. 

Head-quarters Department of the Cumberland, > 
MuRFREESHORO, TENNESSEE, February 12, 1863. j 

General: — As -the sub-reports are now nearly all in, I have the 
honor to submit, for the information of the general-in-chief, the subjoined 
report, with accompanying- sub-reports, maps, and statistical table of the 
battle of Stone River. 

To a proper understanding of this battle it will be necessary to state 
the preliminary movements and preparations. Assuming command of 
the army at Louisville, on the 27th day of October, it was found concen- 
trated at Bowling Green and Glasgow, distant about one hundred and 
thirteen miles from Louisville, whence, after replenishing with ammuni- 
tion, supplies, and clothing, they moved on to Nashville, the advance 
corps reaching that place on the morning of the 7th of November — a 
distance of one hundred and eighty-three miles from Louisville. 

At this distance from my base of supplies, the first thing to be done 
was to provide for the subsistence of the troops and open the Louisville 
& Nashville Railroad. The cars commenced running through on the 
26th of November, previous to which time our supplies had been brought 
by rail to Mitchelville, thirty-five miles north of Nashville, and thence, 
by constant labor, we had been able to haul enough to replenish the 
exhausted stores for the garrison at Nashville and subsist the troops of 
the moving army. 

From the 26th of November to the 26th of December every effort 
was bent to complete the clothing of the army, to provide it with 
ammunition, and replenish the depot at Nashville with needful supplies 
to insure us against want from the largest possible detention likely to 
occur by breaking of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad ; and to insure 
this work, the road was guarded by a heavy force posted at Gallatin. 

The enormous superiority of numbers of the rebel cavalry kept our 
little cavalry force almost within the infantry lines, and gave the enemy 
control of the entire country around us. 

It Avas obvious, from the beginning, that we should be confronted by 
Bragg's army, recruited by an inexorable conscription, and aided by 
clouds of mounted men, formed into guerrilla-like cavalry, to avoid the- 
hardships of conscription and infantry service. 



M GREENE COUNTV IN THE WAR. 

The evident difficulties and labors of an advance into this country, 
and against such a force, and at such distance from our base of opera- 
tions — with which we were connected by a single precarious thread — 
made it manifest that our policy was to induce the enemy to travel over 
as much as possible of the space that separated us, thus avoiding for us 
the -wear and tear and diminution of our forces, and subjecting the 
enemy to all these inconveniences, besides increasing for him, and dimin- 
ishing from us, the dangerous consequences of a defeat. The means 
taken to obtain this end were eminently successful. The enemy, expect- 
ing us to go into winter-quarters at Nashville, had prepared his own 
winter-quarters at Murfreesboro, with the hope of possibly making them 
at Nashville, and had sent a large cavalry force into West Tennessee to 
annoy Grant, and another large force into Kentucky to break up the 
railroad. In the absence of these forces, and with adequate supplies in 
Nashville, the moment was judged opportune for an advance on the 
rebels. Polk's and Kirby Smith's forces were at Murfreesboro, and 
Hardee's corjDs on the Shelbyville and Nolensville pike, between Triune 
and Eagles ville, with an advance guard at Nolensville, while our troops 
lay in front of Nashville, on the Franklin, Nolensville, and Murfreesboro 
turnpike. 

The plan of the movement was as follows: [But as the plan has 
already been given it is not necessary to i-epeat it here. — Ai'THOR.] 

General Rosencranz addressed General McCook as follows : 
*' You know the ground — you have fought over its difficulties — 
can you hold your present position for three hours?'' To which 
General McCook replied, "Yes, I think I can." The general 
commanding then said ; "I don't like the facing so much to the 
east, but I must confide that to you, who know the ground. If 
you don't think your present the best position, change it." And 
the officers then retired to their commands. 

At daylight on the morning of the 31st the troops breakfasted [some 
of them, not all. — Author.] and stood to their arms, and by seven 
o'clock were preparing for the battle. 

The movement began on the left by General Van Cleve, who crossed 
at the lower fords. Wood prepared to sustain and follow him. The 
-enemy, meanwhile, had prepared to attack General McCook, and by 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 45 

half past six o'clock advanced in heavy columns, regimental front, his^ 
left attacking Willich's and Kirk's brigades of Johnson's division, which, 
being disposed as shown in the map, thin and light, without support, 
were, after a sharp but fruitless contest, crumbled to pieces and driven 
back, leaving Edgarton's and part of Goodspeed's battery in the hands, 
of the enemy. The enemy following up, attacked Davis' division and 
speedily dislodged Post's brigade. Carlin's brigade was compelled to 
follow, as Woodruff ^s brigade, from the weight of testimony, had pre- 
viously left its position on his left. Johnson's brigade, on retiring, 
inclined too far to the west, and were too much scattered to make a 
combined resistance, though they fought bravely at one or two points 
before reaching Wilkinson's pike. The reserve brigade of Johnspn's 
division, advancing from its bivouac near Wilkinson's pike, towards the 
right, took a good position, and made a gallant but ineffectual stand, a.v 
the whole rebel left was moving up on the gi-ound abandoned by our 
troops. 

Within an hour from the time of the opening of the battle a staff 
officer from General McCook arrived, announcing to me that the right 
wing was heavily pressed and needed assistance ; but I was not advised 
of the rout of Willich's and Kirby's brigades, nor of the rapid with- 
drawal of Davis' division, necessitated thereby. Moreover, having sup- 
posed his wing posted more compactly and his right more refused than it 
really was, the direction of the noise of battle did not indicate to me the 
true state of affairs. I consequently directed him to return and direct 
General McCook to dispose his troops to the l^est advantage, and to hold 
his ground obstinately. 

Soon after a second officer from General McCook arrived, and stated 
that the right wing was being driven ^ — a fact that was but too manifest 
l)y the ra]iid movement of the noise of battle toward the north. General 
Thomas was immediately dispatched to order Rousseau — then in 
reserve — into the cedar l)rakes to the right and rear of Sheridan. 
General Crittenden was ordered to suspend Van Cleve's movement across 
the river, on the left, and to cover the crossing with one brigade, and 
move the other two brigades westward across the fields, towards the 
railroad, for a reserve. Wood was also directed to suspend his prepara- 
tions for crossing,, and to hold Hascall in reserve. At this moment" 
fugitives and stragglei-s from McCook's corps began to make their appear- 
ance through the cedar brakes in such numbers that I became satisfiedi* 



46 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

that McCook's corps was routed. I therefore directed General Crittenden 
to send Van Cleve in to the right of Rousseau, Wood to send Colonel 
Harker's .brigade further down the Murfreesboro pike, to go in and 
attack the enemy on the right of Van Cleve, the Pioneer brigade, mean- 
while, occupying the knoll of ground west of the Murfreesboro pike 
and about four or five hundred yards in the rear of Palmer's center, sup- 
porting Stockton's battery. 

Sheridan, after sustaining four successive attacks, gradually swung 
his right from a south-easterly to a north-westerly direction, repulsing the 
enemy four times, losing the gallant General Sill of his right and Colonel 
Roberts of his left brigade, when, having exhausted his ammunition — 
Negley's division being in the same predicament, and heavily pressed — 
after desperate fighting, they fell back from the position held at the com- 
mencement, through the cedar woods, in which Rousseau's division, with 
a portion of Negley's and Sheridan's, met the advancing enemy and 
checked his movements. 

The ammunition train of the right wing, endangered by its sudden 
discomfiture, was taken charge of by Captain Thurston, of the First 
Ohio, a regular ordnance officer, who, by his energy and gallantry, aided 
by a charge of cavalry and such troops as he could pick up, carried it 
through the woods to the Murfreesboro pike, around to the rear of the 
left wing, thus enabling the troops of Sheridan's division to replenish 
their empty cartridge-boxes. During all this time Palmer's front had 
likewise been in action, the enemy having made several attempts to 
advance upon it. 

At this stage it bedame necessary to re-adjust the line of battle to 
the new state of affairs. Rousseau and Van Cleve's advance having 
relieved Sheridan's division, withdrew from their original position in front 
of the cedars and crossed the open field to the east of the Murfreesboro 
pike, about four hundred yards in the rear of our front line, where Negley 
was ordered to replenish his ammunition and form in close column in 
reserve 

The right and center of our line now extended from Hazen to the 
Murfreesboro pike, in a north-westerly direction, Hascall supporting 
Hazen, Rousseau filling the interval to the Pioneer brigade, Negley in 
reserve, Van Cleve west of the Pioneer brigade, McCook's corps refused 
on his right and slightly to the rear on the Murfreesboro pike, the cavalry 
being still further to the rear, on the Murfreesboro pike, and beyond 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 47 

Overall's Creek. The enemy's infantry and cavalry attack on our extreme 
right was repulsed by Van Cleve's division, with Harker's brigade and 
the cavalry. 

After several attempts of the enemy to advance on this new line — 
which were thoroughly repulsed, as also their attempts on the left — the 
day closed, leaving us masters of the original ground on our left, and 
our new line advantageously posted, with open ground in front, swept at 
all points by our artillery. 

We had lost heavily in killed and wounded, and a considerable 
number in stragglers and prisoners ; also, twenty-eight pieces of artillery, 
the horses having been slain, and our troops being unable to withdraw 
them by hand over the rough ground. pjut the enemy had been 
thoroughly handled and badly damaged at all points, having had no 
success where we had open ground and our troops were properly posted — 
none which did not depend on the original crushing on our right and the 
superior masses which were, in consequence, brought to bear upon the 
narrow front of Sheridan's and Negley's divisions and a part of Palmer's, 
coupled with the scarcity of ammunition, caused by the circuitous road 
which the train had taken and the inconvenience of getting it from a 
remote distance through the cedars. 

Orders were given for the issue of all the spare ammunition, and we 
found that we had enough for another battle, the only question being 
where that battle was to be fought. 

It was decided, in order to complete our present lines, that the left 
should be retired some two hundred and fifty yards, to a more advanta- 
geous ground, the extreme left resting on Stone River above the lower 
ford and extending to Stokes' battery. Starkweather's and Walker's 
brigades arriving near the close of the evening, the former bivouacked in 
close column, in reserve, in rear of McCook's left, and the latter was 
posted on the left of Sheridan, near the Murfreesboro pike, and next 
morning relieved Van Cleve, who returned to his position on the left 
wing. 

After careful examination and free consultation with corps command- 
ers, followed by a personal examination of the ground in the rear as far 
as Overall's Creek, it was determined to await the enemy's attack in that 
position, to send for the provision traio, and order up fresh supplies of 
ammunition, on the arrival of which, should the enemy not attack, 
offensive operations should be resumed. 



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48 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

No demonstration l:)eing made on the morning of the ist of January, 
Crittenden was ordered to occupy the points opposite the ford on his left 
with a brigade. About two o'clock in the afternoon the enemy, who had 
shown signs of movement and massing on our right, appeared at the 
extremity of a field a mile and a half from the Murfreesboro pike, but 
the presence of Gibson's brigade, with a battery, occupying the woods 
near Overall's Creek, and Negley's division and a portion of Rousseau's 
on the Murfreesboro pike opposite the field, put an end to this demon- 
stration ; and the day closed with another demonstration by the enemy 
on Walker's brigade, which ended in the same manner. 

On Friday morning the enemy opened four heavy r)atteries on our 
center, and made a strong demonstration of attack a little further to the 
right ; but a well-directed fire of artillery soon silenced his batteries* 
while the guns of Walker and Sheridan put an end to his effort there. 

About three o'clock p. m., while the commanding general was exam- 
ining the position of Crittenden's left, across the river, which was now 
held by Van Cleve's division, supported by a brigade from Palmer's, a 
double line of skirmishers was seen to emerge from the woods in a south- 
easterly direction, advancing across the fields; and they were soon 
followed by heavy columns of infantry, battalion front, with three bat- 
teries of artillery. Our only battery on that side of the river had been 
withdrawn from an eligible point ; but the most available spot was 
pointed out, and it soon opened fire upon the enemy. The line, however, 
advanced steadily to within one hundred yards of the front of Van 
Cleve's division, when a short and fierce contest ensued. Van Cleve's 
division gave way and retired in considerable confusion across the river, 
followed closely by the enemy. General Crittenden immediately directed 
his chief of artillery to dispose the batteries on the hill on the west side of 
the river so as to open on them, while two brigades of Negley's division, 
from the reserve, and the Pioneer brigade were brought up to meet their 
onset. The firing was terrific, and the havoc terrible. The enemy 
retreated more rapidly than they had advanced. In forty minutes they 
lost two thousand men. General Davis, seeing some stragglers from Van 
Cleve's division, took one of his brigades and crossed at a ford below, to 
attack the enemy on his left flank, and by General McCook's order the 
rest of his division was permit t<xl to follow ; but when he aiTived two 
brigades of Negley's division and liazen's brigade of Palmer's division 
had pursued the flying enemy well across the field, capturing four pieces 



THE SEVENTY- FOURTH. 49 

of artillery and a stand of colors. It was now after dark, and raining, 
or we should have pursued the enemy into Murfreesboro. As it was, 
Crittenden's corps passed over, and with Davis occupied the crest which 
was intrenched in a few hours. Deeming it possible that the enemy 
might again attack our right and center thus weakened, I thought it 
advisable to make a demonstration on our right by a heavy division' 
of camp-fires, and by laying out a line of battle with torches, which 
answered the purpose. 

On Saturday, January 3d, it rained heavily from three o'clock in the 
morning. The plowed ground, over which our left would be obliged to 
advance, was impassable for artillery. The ammunition-train did not 
arrive until ten o'clock, it was therefore deemed unadvisable to advance, 
but batteries were put in position on the left, by which the ground could 
be swept, and even Murfreesboro reached by the Parrott guns. A heavy 
and constant picket tiring had been kept up on our right and center, and 
extending to our left, which at last became so annoying that in the after- 
noon I directed the corps commanders to clear the fronts. Occupying 
the woods to the left of Murfreesboro pike with sharpshooters, the enemy 
had annoyed Rousseau all- day, and General Thomas and himself requested 
permission to dislodge them and their supports which covered a ford. 
This was granted, and a sharp fire from four ])atteries was opened for ten 
or fifteen minutes, when Rousseau sent two of his regiments, which, with 
vSpeer's Tennesseeans, and the Kighty-fifth Illinois \'olunteers, that had 
come out with the wagon trains, charged upon the enemy, and, after a 
sharp contest, cleared the woods and drove the enemy from his trenches, 
capturing from seventy to eighty prisoners. 

Sunday morning, January 4th, it was not deemed advisable to 
commence offensive movements ; and news soon reached us that the 
enemy had fled from Murfreesboro. Burial parties were sent out to burv 
the dead, and the cavalry was sent to reconnoiter. 

Early on Monday morning General Thomas advanced, driving the 
rear guard of rebel cavalry before him six or seven miles, toward Man- 
chester. McCook and Crittenden's corps following, took position in 
front of the town of Murfreesboro. We learned that the enemy's infaftfyy 
had reached Shelbyville by 12 M. on Sunday; but owing to the imprae- 
ticability of bringing up supplies and the loss of 557 artillery horses, 
further pursuit was deemed unadvisable. 

It may be of use to give the following general summary of the 
4 



50 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

operations and results of the series of skirmishes, closing with the battle 
of Stone River and occupation of Murfreesboro. We moved on the 
enemy with the following forces: Infantry, 41,421; artillery, 2,223 ; 
cavalry, 3,296. Total, 46,940. We fought the battle with the following 
forces : Infantry, 37,977 ; artillery, 2,223 ; cavalry, 3,200. Total, 43,400. 
We lost in killed: Officers, 92; enlisted men, 1,441. Total, 1,533. We 
lost in wounded: Officers, 384; enlisted men, 6,881. Total, 7,245. 
Total killed and wounded, 8,778. Our loss in prisoners is not fully made 
out, but the provost marshal general says, from present information they 
will fall short of 2,800. 

If there are many bloodier battles on record, considering the newness 
and inexperience of the troops, both officers and men, or if there has 
been more true fighting qualities displayed by any people, I should be 
pleased to know it. On the whole, it is evident that we fought superior 
numbers on unknown ground, inflicting much more injury than we 
suffered. We were always superior in\ equal ground, with equal num- 
bers, and failed of a most crushing victory on Wednesday by the exten- 
sion and direction of our right wing. 

This closes the narrative of the movements and seven days' fighting, 
which terminated with the occupation of Murfreesboro. Beside the 
mention which has been already made of the service of our artillery by 
the brigade, division, and corps commanders, I deem it a duty to say 
that such a marked evidence of skill in handling the batteries, and in 
firing with effect, appears, in this battle, to deserve special commenda- 
tion. Among the lesser commands which deserve special mention for 
distinguished service in the battle is the Pioneer Corps, a body of 1,700 
men, composed of details from the companies of each infantry regiment, 
organized and instructed by Captain James St. Clair Morton, corps of 
engineers, chief engineer of this army, which marched as an infantry 
brigade to the left wing, making bridges at Stewart's Creek ; prepared 
and guarded the ford at Stone River on the nights of the 29th and 30th ; 
supported Stokes' battery, and fought with valor and determination on 
the 31st, holding its position until relieved on the morning of the 2d; 
advancing with the greatest promptitude and gallantry to support Van 
Cleve's division against the attack on our left, on the evening of the same 
day ; constructing a bridge and batteries between that lime and Saturday 
evening ; and the efficiency and esprit die corps suddenly developed in this 
command, its gallant behavior in action, the eminent service it is contin- 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 51 

ually rendering the army, entitle both the officers and men to special 
public notice and thanks, while they reflect the highest credit on the 
distinguished ability and capacity of Captain Morton, who will do honor 
to his promotion to a brigadier general, which the President has prom- 
ised him. 

The Eighteenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, at Stewart's Creek, 
Lieutenant Colonel Bark commanding, deserves especial praise for the 
ability and spirit with which they held their post, defended our trains, 
succored their cars, chased away Wheeler's rebel cavalry, saving a large 
wagon-train, and arrested and returned in service some two thousand 
stragglers from the battle-field. 

The First Regiment of Michigan, engineers and mechanics, at 
Lavergne, under the command of Colonel Innis, fighting behind a slight 
protection of wagons and brush, gallantly repulsed a charge from more 
than ten times their numbers of Wheeler's cavalry. 

For distinguished acts of individual zeal, heroism, and gallantry, 
and good conduct, I refer to the accompanying list of special mentions 
and commendations for promotion, wherein are named some of the many 
noble men who have distinguished themselves and done honor to their 
country and the starry symbol of its unity. But those names there are 
by no means all whose names will be inscribed on the rolls of honor we 
are preparing, and hope to be held in grateful remembrance by our 
countrymen. To such men as Major General George H. Thomas, 
true and prudent, distinguished in counsel and on many battle-fields for 
his courage ; or Major General McCook, a tried, faithful, and loyal 
soldier, who bravely breasted battle at Shiloh, and at Perrysville, and as 
bravely on the bloody field of Stone River ; and Major General Thomas 
L. Crittenden, whose heart is that of a true soldier and patriot : I doubly 
thank them, as well as the gallant, ever-ready Major General Rousseau, 
for their support in this battle. Brigadier General D. S. Stanley, already 
distinguished for four successful battles — Island No. lo. May 27th, 
before Corinth, luka, and the battle of Corinth — at this time in com- 
mand of our ten regiments of cavalry, fought the enemy's forty regiments 
of cavalry, and held them at bay, and beat them whenever he could 
meet them. In such brigadiers as Negley, Jefferson C. Davis, Johnson, 
Palmer, Hascall, Van Cleve, Wood, Mitchell, Cruft, and Sheridan, and 
such brigade commanders as Colonels Carlin, Miller, Hazen, Samuel 
Beatty of the Nineteenth Ohio, Gibson, Gross, Wagner, John Beatty 



52 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

of the Third Ohio, Harker, Starkweather, Stanley, and others whose 
names are mentioned in the accompanying report, the government may 
well contide. To these T offer my most heart-felt thanks and good wishes. 
Words of my own can not add to the renown of our brave and patriotic 
officers and soldiers who fell on the field of honor, nor increase respect 
for their memory in the hearts of our countrymen. The names of sucb 
men as Lieutenant Colonel J. P. Garesche, the pure and noble Christian 
gentleman and chivalric officer, who gave his life an early offering on the 
altar of his country's freedom ; the gentle, true, and accomplished 
General Sill; the heroic and ingenious Colonels Rol^erts, Milliken,. 
Shaeffer, McKee, Reed, Foreman, Fred. Jones, Hawkins, Knell, and the 
gallant and faithful Major Carpenter, of the Nineteenth Regulars, and 
many other field officers, will live in our country's history, as well as many 
others of inferior rank, whose soldierly deeds on this memorable battle- 
field won for them the admiration of their companions, and will dwell in 
our memories in long-future years, after God, in his mercy, shall have 
given us peace, and restored us to the bosoms of our homes and families. 
Simple justice to the gallant officers of my staff — the noble and lamented 
Lieutenant Colonel (iaresche, chief of staff; Lieutenant Colonel Taylor, 
chief quartermaster ; Lieutenant Colonel Simmons, chief commissary ; 
Major C. Goddard, senior aid-de-camp ; Major Ralston Skinner, judge 
advocate general; Lieutenant Frank S. l^omb, aid-de-camp of General 
Tyler; Captain Chax-les Thompson, my aid-de-camp; Lieutenant 15yron 
Ivirby, Sixth United States Infantry, aid-de-camp, who was wounded on 
the 31st; R. S. Thorn, Esq., a member of the Cincinnati bar, who acted 
as volunteer aid-de-camp, behaving with distinguished gallantry ; Colonel 
Rarnett, chief of artillery and ordnance; Captain G. IL Gilman, Nine- 
teenth United States Infantry, inspector of artillery ; Captain James 
Curtis, Fifteenth United States Infantry, assistant inspector general; 
Captain Wiles, Twenty-second Indiana, provost marshal general ; Captain 
Michler, topographical engineer; Captain Jesse Merrill, of the signal 
corps, whose corps behaved well; Captain Elmer Otis, Fourth Regular 
Cavalry, who commanded the second courier line, connecting the various 
head-quarters, most successfully, and who made a most opportune and 
brilliant charge on Wheeler's cavalry, routing the brigade, and recaptur- 
ing three hundred of our prisoners; Lieutenant Edson, United States 
ordnance officer, who, during the battle of Wednesday, distributed 
ammunition under the fire of the enemy's batteries, and behaved bravely ; 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 53 

Captain Hubbard and Lieutenant Newberry, who joined my staft' on the 
field, acting as aids, rendered valuable services in carrying orders on the 
field ; Lieutenant Byse, Fourth United States Cavalry, commanding the 
escort of the head-quarters train, and distinguished himself with gallantry 
and efficiency, who not only performed these appropriate duties to my 
entire satisfaction, but accompanied me everywhere, carrying orders 
through the thickest of the fight, watched while others slept, never weary 
when, duty called — deserve my public thanks, and the respect and grati- 
tude of the army. 

With all these facts of the battle fully before me, the relative num- 
bers and positions of our troops and those of the rebels, the gallantry 
and obstinacy of the contest, and the final result, I say, from conviction, 
and as a public acknowledgment due to Almighty God, in closing this 
report, " iion nobis ^ Do»iine^ non 7iobis ; sed nomine tuo da gloriam ! " 
WM. S. ROSENCRANS, Major General Commanding. 

Brigadier General L. Thomas, Adjutant General, U. S. A. 

* 
I was slightly wounded in the batde of Stone River, and 
taken to the field hospital, five miles toward Nashville. It was 
impossible to supply all the wounded with tents. Rails were 
hauled and fires built, and they were laid on the ground before 
the fires. Men were wounded in every conceivable way — some 
with their arms and legs shot oft", some in the head, and some in 
the body. It was heart-rending to hear their cries and groans. 
One poor fellow, who was near me, was wounded in the head. 
He grew delirious during the night, and would frequently call 
for his mother. He would say, '' Mother, O mother, come and 
help me I " The poor fellow died before morning, with no 
mother near to soothe him in his dying moments or wipe the 
cold sweat from his brow. I saw the surgeons amputate limbs, 
then throw the quivering flesh into a pile. Every once in a 
while a man would stretch himself out and die. Next morning 
rows of men were laid out side by side, ready for the soldiers' 
burial. No weeping friends stood around; no coffin and hearse 
to bear them away to the grave; no funeral orations delivered; 



54 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

but there, away from home and kindred, they were wrapped in 
the soldiers' blanket, a trench dug, their bodies placed side by 
side, like they fought, a few shovelfuls of earth thrown upon 
them, and they were left alone. 

Among those who were wounded were Charles M. Wolf, 
James Seldomridge, A. B. Cosier, and perhaps some others from 
Company C, Seventy-fourth Ohio Regiment. 

Through the kindness of Sergeant Cosier, I fared pretty 
well. He procured an old blanket for me, and I lay by the 
fire all night, much more comfortable than the night before, on 
the battle-field. I said ''comfortable." It may be imagined 
that there was not much comfort anywhere. I was wounded 
just above the left knee, by a musket-ball or a piece of shell, I 
am unable to tell which. Although my leg pained me consid- 
erably, so that I slept very little during the night, still I did not 
complain, as there were others who were hurt a great deal worse 
than I was. Soon after I arrived at the hospital a surgeon 
proposed to dress my wound ; but I told him to attend to others 
around me, who needed attention first. 

The next day it rained; and, having no shelter-tent, it was 
very disagreeable. It was on Wednesday I was taken to the 
hospital, and on Saturday, being able to hobble around with the 
aid of a stick, I resolved to get back to the regiment. I accord- 
ingly started to the front. Being lame, I made slow progress. 

I had not gone far before I came up to a squad of men 
guarding muskets which had been picked up on the battle field. 
I had lost my gun during the battle, or, rather, I gave it to a 
soldier to carry for me as I was going to the rear, and he set it 
up against a tree and left it. I approached the officer who was 
in command of the squad, and told him I had lost my gun. He 
told me to go to the stack and select one for myself. I selected 
a nice Enfield rifle, nearly new, and took it, and went on toward 
Murfreesboro. 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 55 

On arriving at the front, which was in the after part of the 
day, I was puzzled to find the Seventy-fourth, as I had been told 
they had moved their position ; but after passing several regi- 
ments and brigades, I inquired of some soldiers of an Indiana 
regiment if they knew where the Eighth Division (General 
Negley's) was. They informed me that the division was only a 
few yards ahead of me, the left resting on the river. They 
were preparing supper when I came up. I spoke to them, and 
asked them if they could give a wounded soldier something to 
eat, as I had eaten nothing since leaving the hospital in the 
morning. They replied that they did not have much, but would 
divide with me, and give me something. I wish I knew the 
name of that regiment. Such generosity is not always found, 
and especially among soldiers who are living on quarter rations. 
I ate a hard-tack and a small piece of meat, thanked them, and 
then set forward again. 

After the battle of Stone River the soldiers had a hard time 
to get something to eat. As much as twenty-five cents was 
offered for a single hard-tack. Money could not buy rations. 
They could not be had. 

I found the Seventy-fourth near the river. The boys 
appeared glad to see me; and it is certain I was glad to see 
them. Soon after I arrived they were called out, but soon 
returned. It was expected that the rebels would make an 
attack ; but they did not. No doubt they had enough of the 
Yankees, as they called the Union troops. That night it rained, 
and I slept but little. It was a very quiet day compared to what 
it had been for a few days past. We remained close to the 
river until near evening. That night some one stole my 
Enfield. 

We received orders to march, as we supposed, into Mur- 
freesboro, late on Saturday afternoon. We went over the field 
so hotly contested, and no one, only those who have been over a 



56 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

battle-field after a hard fight, can form an idea of the spectacle it 
presents. Numbers of dead men and horses were strewn over 
the ground like old logs in a clearing or deadening. Guns, 
knapsacks, pistols, cartridge-boxes, etc , and squads of burying 
parties gathering up the dead, were to be seen on every side. 
We moved up to the rebel breastworks, near the river. The 
battery sent over a few shells, to ascertain whether the rebels 
had gone or not. We spent the night among the dead, who 
were lying all around us. 

I will here subjoin a letter written soon after the battle : 

THK KILLED, WOUNDED, AND MISSING OF THE SEVENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT. 

Head-quarters Seventy-fourth Regiment, O. V. I,, 



-QUARTERS SeVENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT, O. V. I,, ) 

Murfreesboro, Tennessee, January lo, 1863. / 



Messrs. Editors: — We copy from a report from the commanding 
officer the following names of men killed, wounded, and missing in the 
two late engagements before Murfreesboro. The battle was one of the 
hardest and most terrible of the war. Our men suffered severely, both 
before and after the fight, having to march through mud and rain, and 
being obliged to lie out in the cold and wet, without tents or blankets. 

On the morning of the 28th we took up our line of march to the 
scene of the conflict, skirmishing through the (Jay, and at eleven o'clock 
at night we were ordered out to support a battery; and there we lay on 
the cold ground, without fire, until sunrise. I suffered more that night 
than in any night during the war. 

At sunrise we were relieved ; but, after swallowing a hasty breakfast 
— in fact, some not eating anything — we were ordered out again, and in 
a short time we were engaged in deadly conflict with the enemy. Our 
position was on the left center, in a dense growth of cedars, hiding, to 
some extent, the enemy from our view. We, however, soon had the 
privilege of giving them the contents of our guns, and with our trusty 
and brave Colonel Moody, and gallant Major Bell, and Adjutant Arm- 
strong, the Severn y-fourth went in with a will. 

Colonel Moody's horse was shot from under him, and he narrowly 
escaped with his life, his clothes being cut in several places. A ball 
struck his pistol, which no doubt saved his life. ]3ut at all times he was 
cool, not appearing the least excited, and giving his orders with great 



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firmness. The men also stood up to the work without flinching. I think 
the Seventy-fourth deserves great praise for the manner in which it acted 
during the fight. 

Some of our brave l:)oys who went into that fight fell as martyrs to 
their country. But their blood has not been shed in vain. Every drop 
that they have shed is a lasting memorial of their undying love for their 
country, and their memories will be held sacred for generations to come. 
General Rosencranz, General Negley, and General Miller passed the 
highest encomiums on the Seventy-fourth. General Rosencranz said he 
believed the Seventy-fourth was a " fighting regiment." And if every 
brigade and every division had done as well as General Negley's and 
Colonel Miller's we would have whipped them out the first day. 

Several of our ofiicers lost their horses. Major Bell and Adjutant 
-Armstrong lost theirs. There were a great many horses, as well as men, 
killed. 

As you no doubt will get a statement of the losses on both sides 
before this reaches you, I will close. 

Yours respectfully. IRA S. OWENS, 

Private Company C, Seventy-fourth O. Y. I. 

The following are the names of the killed, wounded, and 
missing in the battle of December 31st: 

KILLED. 

Company A. — Corporal Isaac I. Smith. Privates Wyatt H. 
Jones and Jacob Bushert. Total, 3. 

Company F. — Sergeant William H. Smith. Private B. G. 
Hughes. Total, 2. 

Company I. — Private John Hawkins. 

Company K. — Corporal John D. Hahon. 

WOUNDED. 

Colonel Granville Moody, slightly. 

Company A. — Sergeant A. C. Mahan, slightly. Corporals 
Samuel Schooley and James R. Hayslet. Privates Daniel S. 
Wilson Barney Walters, Michael McMarrah, Jesse Curry, Jacob 
Shields. Total, 8. 



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Company B. — Sergeant James McCann, slightly. Privates 
John A. Seiss, seriously; William H. Pratt, Ephraim Dickenson, 
Jacob Wildermott, and Jesse Stevens, slightly; Henry C. 
Edwards and James Bone, badly (wounded accidentally). 
Total, 8. 

Company C. — Privates Henry G. Forbes, William T. 
McDaniel, Philip Tracy, and Ira S. Owens, slightly; Alfred 
Harold, badly; James H. Seldomridge, wounded badly in the 
back ; Charles M. Wolf, in the arm ; Chauncey White, in the 
leg ; Samuel T. Miller, accidentally in the foot. Total, 9. 

Company D. — Privates Philip Minehart, mortally; John Q. 
Collins and Richard Galloway, slightly; J. Coppie, leg (since 
amputated); P. Castello, J. McCune, WilHam McAfee, F. 
Hunter, and A. Ames. Total, 10. 

Company E. — Corporal John Cox. Privates Ed. C. Snyder 
and Wesley Snyder. Total, 3. 

Company F. — Captain Walter Crook. Lieutenant M. H. 
Peters. Sergeants Enos H. Walters and Cyrus Phillips. Orderly 
Sergeant Charles C. Dodson. Corporals David Bansman and 
Edon Schumer. Privates John Elder, George W. Beck, and 
Patrick McConor. Total, 10. 

Company G.— Orderly Sergeant M. K. McFadden. Cor- 
poral L. Baker. Privates Hiram Cox, John Handy, William 
Chambers, and J. C. Mansfield. Total, 6. 

Company H. — Captain Joseph Ballard. First Lieutenant 
David Snodgrass. First Sergeant Raper A. Spahr (since died). 
Corporals Philip Stumm and Albert F. Johnson. Privates 
Calvin Curl (since died), Dudley Day, Joseph Wyburn, John 
A. Donald, and Augustus Houmard. Total, 10. 

Company L — First Lieutenant Robert Cullen, severely. 
Sergeant John Toole. Privates Michael Connell, Terrence 
McLaughlin, and James McCarty. Total, 5. 



THE SEVENTY- FOURTH. . 59 

Company K. — Corporal William Carter. Private David 
Steith. Total, 2. 

MISSING. 

Company A. — Privates Alex. Walthal and Charles Hummer. 
Total, 2. 

Company B. — Privates Patrick McNary, Edward Persinger, 
George C. McClellan, and Charles Lucas. Total, 4. 

Company D. — Corporals J. H. McClung and J. Hamilton. 
Privates S. G. Stewart, Henry Frock, and William Drummonds. 
Total, 5. 

Company E. — Private Isaac M. Keiser. 

Company F. — Privates Jonathan Townsend, John O'Brien, 
and Jacob Candell. Total. 3. 

Company G. — Private Charles Weaver. 

Company H.— Corporal Fred Shull. Privates Christopher 
Cline, Morris Haley, and Urs Yagge. Total, 4. 

Ttetal number of killed, 7 ; wounded, 78 ; missing, 22. 

I regret that I have lost the list of those killed on the 2d of 
January, 1863. 

The following letter was also written while at Murfreesboro, 
to the Xenia Torchlight: 

a visit to the general field hospital, near murfreesborov 

Camp near Murfreeskoro, Tennessee, Y 
May 20, 1863. J 

Messrs. Editors: — Yesterday morning I left camp, and visited the 
general field hospital, situated one mile west of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 
on Stone River. The river runs nearly around it, forming almost an 
island, the grouiid being in the shape of a horseshoe. Here I found 
several of the Seventy-fourth boys who are detailed — among them, John^ 
F. Reed, formerly of Cedarville, Greene County, who is clerking and 
partly assisting in the washing and laundry department. Through him 1 
was enabled to gain considerable information pertaining to the hospital ;; 
and it may be interesting to your many readers to give a description.' of 
the same. 



'^^O 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



In company with Mr. Reed I visited, first, llie washing and laundry 
department. Here they employ thirty-two females (colored), and they 
wash and iron about five thousand articles of clothing per week. Captain 
Frink's lady, of the United States regular army, superintends this depart- 
ment. 

I next visited the garden. It contains about forty acres. Here I 
found different kinds of vegetables growing — onions, potatoes, etc. The 
ground is neatly laid out in squares, with streets running each way for 
vehicles. In the center, where the streets cross, I understand it is the 
intention to plant the Stars and Stripes. 

George Sargent, of Company C, Seventy-fourth Regiment O. V. I., 
is ward-master of the hospital, which is divided into eight wards, the 
streets being about fifty feet wide, with an avenue between each ward, 
where the cooking is done. In each ward there is a frame house to cook 
and eat in. There are two tables in a room, sufficient to accommodate 
about eighty men at a time. I partook of their hospitality, and ate with 
them. They have plenty to eat, and it is gotten up in good style. 

There are about twenty ladies here from the northern states, who are 
•administering to the wants of the patients. And here let me say that if I 
were to be sick in the army, I would rather be here than anywhere else, 
Avith these angels of mercy to attend me while away from home. 

M. Woodruff, formerly of the Seventy-fourth Illinois Volunteers, is 
steward ; George Davis, druggist ; J. Wilkerson, of Company A, Seventy- 
fourth O. V. I., postmaster; and Rev. Mr. Stuff, chaplain. 

I also visited the clerk's office. The clerk showed me the books, and 
the manner in which they are kept. There were about five thousand in 
the hospital. They are sending away an average of seventy-five men a 
day. The average rate of deaths is thirty per week. There are fifteen 
hundred men in the hospital at present. The hospital is under the com- 
mand of Dr. J. T. Findley. 

The Seventy-fourth regiment is now commanded by Major Thomas 
C. Bell, Colonel Moody having resigned. The health of the regiment is 
good. The weather continues fine, and all is quiet here at present. 
Yours truly. IRA S. OWENS. 



THE SEVENTY- FOURTH. ©il 

On the 10th we started back to Miirfreesboro, and marclied 
eight miles and halted in the woods. That night it rained, and 
we spent a disagreeable night. The next day we marched as 
far as Lavergne, and halted and spent the night. It rained 
quite hard that day and it was very disagreeable marching. 

On the 14th we went foraging for corn. On our return ta 
camp it rained quite hard, and we got very wet. 

On the l(!th I was taken sick — had an attack of neuralgia, 
caused from exposure. The next day I was sent to No. 8 
Hospital, Murfreesboro. I was very sick, and remained in the 
hospital until the 7th of March, when I returned to the regiment. 

On the 27th we moved camp west of town, to the fortifica- 
tions, where we were engaged working until the 21st of April, 
when we moved cam]) and joined the brigade, near where we 
camped first. 

On the 25th I was detailed as clerk in the mustering office 
at General Negley's head-quarters. Captain William Taylor was 
the mustering officer. He is a grandson of Presidient William 
H. Harrison. I remained in the mustering office until the 12th 
of May, when 1 reported to the regiment. 

May IGth Colonel Moody appointed me ordnance-master 
of the regiment. Colonel Moody resigned this day. I continued 
to act as ordnance-master as long as we remained at Murfreesboro. 

Colonel Josiah Given, of the Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry, was appointed colonel of the Seventy-fourth, and took 
command after Colonel Moody's resignation. 

June 24th we received marching orders. Tore up camp 
and started, it raining, as usual, when we started on a march. 
We marched eight miles toward Manchester, it raining all the 
time. We carried our knapsacks, and at night halted and slept 
in the woods, being wet all through with the rain, which con- 
tinued all night; yet so wearied were we that we enjoyed a good 
rest notwithstanding the rain. 



62 GREENE COUNTY IN THE \VAR. 

Next day we started again, and marched some two or three 
miles, halting on the side of a hill, where we remained all night. 
Fighting in front. Several ambulances, with wounded men, 
went to the rear. The fighting was at Hoover's Gap. On the 
26th we started again toward Manchester, and passed through 
Hoov-er's Gap. 

In December, 1862, the Seventy-fourth was placed in the 
Seventh Brigade (Miller's), Eighth Division (Negley's), formerly 
part of the center (Thomas') Fourteenth Army Corps, Depart- 
ment of the Cumberland. The Seventy-fourth went into the 
battle of Stone River with three hundred and eighty effective 
men, of whom it lost, in killed and wounded, one hundred and 
nine, and forty-six prisoners. 

On the re-organization of the army at Murfreesboro, Ten- 
nessee, in February, 1863, the Seventy-fourth was assigned to 
the Third Brigade (Miller's), Second Division (Negley's), Four- 
teenth Army Corps (Thomas'). 

Several changes took place among the officers. Colonel 
Moody, Major Bell, and Captains Owens, McDowell, and 
Ballard resigned, which made necessary the following promo- 
tions : To colonelcy, Josiah Given, late lieutenant colonel of the 
Eighteenth Ohio; to captaincies, Mills, Armstrong, McGinnis, 
Tedford, and McElravy; to first lieutenantcies, McMillen, 
Hunter, Hutchinson, Weaver, and Bricker; to second lieuten- 
antcies, Adams, Scott, Drummond, and McGreavey. 

After passing through the gap, the regiment had a toilsome 
march through mud and rain. The enemy had been driven 
back. We waded one creek thirteen times, and marched on 
until after night. Most of the boys gave out before reaching 
Manchester, and halted and lay beside the road until morning. 
I, with several of the boys of Company C, lay all night at the 
foot of a tree, with no covering, using our cartridge-boxes for 
pillows. The next day, which was the 27th, we marched into 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 63 

Manchester, and I was taken sick. The regiment was sent back 
to Murfreesboro to guard a wagon-train, but I remained at 
Manchester quite sick. 

On the 28th the regiment was ordered forward. I, with 
several others, was sent to a house that was formerly used for a 
rebel hospital, where we remained one week, and then were sent 
to Tullahoma. While at Manchester, we heard of the fall of 
Vicksburg. ■■ 

On arriving at Tullahoma we were placed in the hospital 
which they were just starting. The accommodations were poor, 
but better than at Manchester. I remained at the hospital four 
weeks. The First Ohio Regiment was camped near, and some 
of the boys would come to see me every day. Meanwhile, the 
regiment was in camp at Deckherd Station, on the Nashville & 
Chattanooga Railroad. 

From Tullahoma I was sent to Nashville, to No. 1 Hospital. 
We arrived at Nashville at midnight, and were conveyed in 
ambulances to the hospital. I was very much fatigued on 
arriving at Nashville, having had to sit up all the way from 
Tullahoma. I was consigned to Ward 3, in the third story. 
The ward-master and nurses were very kind to me. As soon as 
convenient I was shown my cot, and lay down, very tired and 
sleepy, and had just got into a refreshing sleep when the nurse 
aroused me, announcing something to eat. Hungry as I was, I 
would rather have slept than eat. I remained in the hospital 
about five weeks ; then was sent to the convalescent camp, 
about a mile south of the city. Several of the Seventy-fourth 
boys were sick at different hospitals at the same time, and were 
also sent to. the convalescent camp. 

After remaining in the camp a short time I was detailed by 
General Granger — who was commanding the post at Nashville 
— as nurse in Hospital No. 8. Here I found it a very arduous 
duty — much more so than camp duty — attending upon the sick 



64 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

and wounded who were brought in from the Chickamauga 
battlefield, which required all my time. I got but little rest. 
Here I formed the acquaintance of several comrades in arms 
whom I shall never forget. Hard as was the duty to be per- 
formed, I spent some very pleasant hours while there. We had 
preaching every Sabbath. There was also quite a revival of 
religion. Several professed to have been converted. 

After having been there several weeks the duty was not 
quite so hard. I was promoted to ward-master in Ward No. o^ 
which duty was not quite so hard as nursing. I had more 
leisure time. 

We formed a lyceum in the hospital, and had some very 
interesting meetings. Once in a while we would give public 
entertainments in the large hall, or lecture room, which was 
fitted up with a fine stage, curtains, etc. At first our fare was 
poor, rations being scarce. 

There was not a man in the hospital who liked the surgeon. 
He was proud, aristocratic, domineering, and mean. He could 
hardly speak a kind word to any of the nurses. I do not suppose 
he ever smelled powder or was in a battle. We had a good 
many just such men in the army. They were remembered 
afterward. Those who used a litde brief authority while they 
could, fared worse afterward. Many a soldier who was abused 
by such aristocrats swore vengeance on them, and got even with 
them. But an officer who was kind, and spoke pleasantly to his 
men, ever had their respect; and even now, in speaking of 
certain officers, the remark is often made, "He was a good 
fellow." 

I will mention one incident which transpired in the army. 
On one of the hard and toilsome marches, when the soldiers — 
to use a homely expression — were nearly "fagged out," a cer- 
tain colonel, observing one of his men nearly exhausted, 
dismounted from his horse and bade the soldier mount, while 



THE SEVENTY- FOURTH. G5" 

he (the colonel) walked along beside and carried the soldier's 
gun. The lieutenant colonel observing this, remarked, "Why, 
colonel, that is not military ! " ''I don't care," said the colonel, 
" it is human." That colonel lives in Greene County at present.- 
and has the respect of every one who knows him. 

I remained at No. 8 Hospital until the Seventy-fourtht 
returned from Chattanooga on its way home, tliey having: 
re-enlisted, and were going home on furlough. I was^ making; 
out my evening report when some of my comrades came to the- 
hospital and told me that the regiment was at the landing, on its' 
way home, on veteran furlough. I threw down my pen without 
finishing my report, and told them I was going, too. I imme- 
. diately went to the baggage-room, got my knapsack, and 
commenced packing it. While so engaged, the surgeon came 
along ( not the one, however, who was there when J first went . 
there — he was quite a different man), and asked me where I 
was going. I told him I was going home. He remarked, "I 
can not spare you." I told him the reason. He said;, ''lam 
sorry; but I suppose I can not hinder you." I was then released 
from the hospital, and, after bidding them an affectionate fare- 
well, I started down stairs. On the way I met Miss Chase, the 
matron. I bade her good bye. She gave me both lier hands, 
and said, "Ira, good-bye. You have been a faithful servant 
here. God bless you." 

In a short time I was at the landing, and found the regiment 
on board the boat, ready to start. I re-enlisted ; and in an hour 
afterward we were steaming down the Cumberland, bound for 
home — yes, home, sweet home. Oh, how glad we felt to think 
that we were on our way home, to see our friends and loved 
ones once more I It seemed that the boat could not go fast 
enough. 

It was on the 2Gth day of January, 18()4, when we left 
Nashville. We arrived at Xenia about the last of January. 



Q6 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

Th€ regiment was received with great honors and demonstrations 
•of joy by the good citizens of Xenia and vicinity, who assembled 
at the depot to welcome them back, and by whom a bountiful 
repast was set before us, which we ate as only hungry soldiers 
can eat. Oh 1 what a joyful time it was 1 Fathers and mothers 
here met their sons, sisters their brothers, and wives their hus- 
bands, in loving embrace. But in some respects it was sorrowful 
as well as joyful ; for some had been left behind. Some had 
fallen in battle; some had sickened and died; and others, who 
still survived, had not re-enlisted. The regiment was granted a 
furlough of thirty days, to visit their triends, re-assembling at 
Xenia on the 17th of March. 

Before leaving for the field the regiment passed resolutions 
returning their hearty thanks tor the kindness with which they 
had been treated. The soldiers of the Seventy- fourth will never 
forget the good people of Xenia. 

The regiment being re-organized numbered, with the addi- 
tion of one hundred new recruits, six hundred and nineteen 
men. 

The Seventy-fourth, once more ready for the field, started 
for the front on the 23d of March, 1864. And now came 
another trying time. Friends bade each other adieu — many for 
the last time. It was much harder to leave home than at first. 

I will now quote from my journal, kept on the march : 

Thursday, 24th. Left Cincinnati on steamer. Rained at 
night. Slept on top of the boat. 

Friday, 25th. Landed at Louisville about six o'clock this 
morning. Marched from the boat to the Soldiers' Home. An 
amusing little incident occurred while marching through the 
streets of Louisville An Irishman, a few paces in advance of 
me, was indulging in a smoke. Having, as he thought, extin- 
guished the fire in his pipe, he put it in his pocket ; but pretty 
soon a strong smell of something burning was experienced. The 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 67 

Irishman, however, kept marching on. After a while he 
remarked that he smelled burnt rags ; and, clapping his hands 
behind him, he drew his coat tail around, exclaiming, at the 
same time, " Be jabbers, and it's meself that's burning! " 

Saturday, 26th. Left Louisville about three o'clock p. m. 
for Nashville, Tennessee. Rode all night, x^rrived at Nash- 
ville next morning about daylight. 

Sunday, 27th. Marched through the city to the south side, 
and camped near our old camp-ground. Drew shelter-tents. 
Went back to town and visited No. 8 Hospital. Here I met 
several of my former acquaintances. They received me very 
kindly, and introduced me to the ward-master as their old ward- 
"master. I stayed all night with them, and enjoyed a good 
night's rest on a nice, clean cot, which was very refreshing after 
being up all the night before. 

The next morning I ate a good breakfast, and then started 
back to camp. We drew rations that day, preparatory to starting 
on the march to Chattanooga. Rained at night. 

Tuesday, 29th. Started on the march to Chattanooga, by 
way of Murfreesboro ; from thence to Shelbyville, Tennessee. 
Not being used to heavy marching, the first day or two our feet 
became very sore and painful At Shelbyville we heard Gov- 
ernor Andrew Johnson make his celebrated Union speech. 

Monday, April 4th. Arrived at Tullahoma. 

Thursday, 7th. Crossed the Cumberland Mountains. From 
the top of the mountains a fine view of the valley below is had, 
stretching for miles, as far as the eye can reach — plantation after 
plantation, verdant fields, and small streams of water which 
resemble threads of silver. \Yq camped at night in Crow Creek 
valley. 

Friday, 8th. Arrived at Stevenson, Alabama, and remained 
all night. Here I ascended the mountain about half way up, 
and had a splendid view of the country. 



68 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

Saturday, Oih. Embarked on cars for Chattanooga, having 
marched from Nashville. There is splendid scenery along the 
route from Stevenson, Alabama, to Chattanooga, Tennessee. 
We passed Shell Mound, the mouth of Nicajack Cave, and the 
famous Lookout Mountain. We arrived at Chattanooga after 
night. It was dark, and rainy, and cold, and as we had no 
place to go we had to remain near the railroad, in the mud and 
rain, without shelter, while, doubtless, generals and high officials, 
who were getting big pay, were quietly snoozing in their tents, 
la the morning we went to the Soldiers' Home for breakfast. 
(Question — Why could they not have taken us there the night 
before ? 

On the 12th of April, 18(34, we started again on the march, 
and marched out to Graysville, Georgia, where we went into 
camp, remaining there until the 3d of May, 1864, when we 
broke up camp and started to Ringgold, Georgia. 

On the night of the 6th there was a splendid illumination 
of the Fourteenth Army Corps. A candle was placed in front 
of every tent — some on poles and trees ; also, large fires were 
built in every street in the vast encampment. It was a grand 
and imposing sight. 

On the 7th of May, 1864, the great Atlanta campaign was 
commenced. I will refer to my journal from time to time, in 
order to give the particulars of that march. 

Saturday, May Tth. Marched this morning, at daylight, 
for the front, l^ormed line of battle at Tunnel Hill. Fighting 
in front. On i)icket at night 

Sunday, Sth. Marched again, and halted in the woods 
near " Hu/zard's Roost." 

Monday, 9th. Advanced, again, about two miles. Com- 
menced an attack on the rebels. Heavy skirmishing. The 
Seventy-fourth under fire. Severely shelled by a rebel battery 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 69 

on the mountain. One man killed and several wounded. Among 
the wounded was Adjutant M. H. Peters. 

Tuesday, 9th. Still fighting. Rebels strongly fortified. 
Went back to the rear, in the afternoon, for rations. Returned 
to the front. Regiment in line of battle. 

Here let me remark, one has a peculiar feeling, standing in 
line of batde, expecting every moment to be ordered forward, it 
imay be to certain death. It is no use to run back, for in a 
battle it is about as dangerous in the rear as in the front. I have 
known instances where men were killed in the rear, while the 
front Jwould escape unhurt. 

We had left our knapsacks at the foot of the mountain 
before being ordered forward. We halted on the side of the 
mountain, and remained in line all night. Our lodging that 
night was not the best. The accommodations were very poor. 
We had orders to sleep on our arms, and not to take off our 
cartridge-boxes. The side of the mountain was steep, and 
covered with little, sharp stones. I threw my gum-blanket on 
the ground, unbuckled my belt, slipped my cartridge-box around 
for a pillow, and, with my gun at my side, slept soundly. When 
I awoke in the morning I had slipped about two feet down the 
hill, and the regiment was anything but in line. We soon, 
however, straightened up and got in line again, ready for action. 

Wednesday, May 11th. Went out on skirmish-line at 
daylight. Very steep climbing. Remained on skirmish-line all 
•day. Heavy firing in the afternoon. Rebel shells fell very 
near us. Marched to the rear at midnight, and remained until 
morning. 

Sherman, leaving one corps in front of Buzzard's Roost, 
marched the rest of his army to Snake Creek Gap, about sixteen 
miles, thus flanking the enemy. The rebels, as soon as they 
found it out, left, and fell back to Resaca. 

At Buzzard's Roost the Seventy-fourth lost sixteen men 



70 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

killed and wounded. At Resaca we had another batde, in 
which the Seventy-fourth lost nine men killed and wounded. 

On the 15th the rebels left Resaca, leaving many of their 
dead on the field. Here we captured a large amount of corn- 
meal. 

The morning of the 17th of May we left, in pursuit of the 
rebels. Crossed the Coosa River. Passed through the town of 
Calhoun. Halted, and remained all night on the side of a hill, 
in the woods. 

Marched next day, and halted at night and built fortifi- 
cations. Weather very warm. ^ 

On the 23d of May we arrived at the Etawah River. The 
march, that day, was a hard one, it being very dry and dusty, 
so much so that we could not see from one end of the regiment 
to the other. 

Before coming to the river we got word that we would have 
to wade it, the rebels having burned the bridge. When we 
arrived at the bank of the river we found it even so. I suppose 
the Etawah is something near the size of the Great Miami River. 
Some of the boys prepared to wade, by taking off their shoes 
and pantaloons. Others went right in, without taking off any- 
thing. I did so myself. When about half way across, where 
the water was nearly breast deep and running very swift, I 
thought I would go ahead of some who were ahead of me, when 
I stumbled and fell, losing my gun, and getting a complete 
wetting, filling my haversack with water and soaking my hard- 
tack. I recovered my gun, which would not have been of much 
use, should we have had occasion to use it. 

It was a ludicrous sight to see the Seventy-fourth wading 
the river. If some artist had been present and sketched the 
scene, it would have made a laughable picture for some of our 
pictorials. 

One man of our regiment thought he would not wade the 



THE SEVENTY- FOURTH. 71 

river, but mounted on behind one of the boys, who was riding a 
mule. When about half way across, the mule stumbled and 
fell, throwing them both over his head, completely ducking 
them. When we got over to the other side the dust was all 
washed off. 

We stayed an hour or so, and by the time we started again 
we were dry, It being very hot. After all, it was an advantage 
to us, for we were relieved of the dust ; and the bathing caused 
us to feel very much refreshed. 

On the 26th we arrived at the Altoona Mountains, where 
we were again under fire, shells bursting very near. We were 
ordered across a field directly in front of the enemy, and, 
although much exposed to shells and bullets, not a man was hit. 
"We proceeded a few rods, and were ordered to lie down. We 
remained in line all night, when we went back to the rear. 

Colonel Neibling, of the Twenty-first Ohio, was wounded 
by a cannon-ball. His arm had to be amputated. 

After retreating to the rear, we built what we called double 
breastworks ; that is, we fortified on both sides of us, as we 
were on an elevation, and exposed to rebel fire on both sides. 

In the engagement of the 27th of May, 1864, the conduct 
of the Seventy-fourth, and other regiments of the Third Brigade, 
elicited from the division commander the following commenda- 
tory notice : 

Head-quarters First Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, ) 
Near Dallas, Georgia, May 28, 1864. / 

Colonel: — General Johnson desires to express to you his high 
appreciation of the gallantry exhibited by the noble troops of your 
brigade in the night engagement of the 27th instant. The admirable 
spirit displayed by them on that occasion is, above all things, desirable 
and commendable. Soldiers animated by such courage and fortitude are 
capable of the very highest achievements. 

(Signed) E. F. WELLS, A. A. G. 



72 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

On the 2d of June we were ordered to the front again. 
Soon after we were in Hne a terrible storm arose, and the rain 
fell in torrents. It seemed that the artillery of the skies and 
that of earth vied with each other. At last the batteries were 
silent; but the awful roar of the thunder, the forked lightning, 
and the dashing rain still continued. Some threen or four men 
were killed by the lightning, in a brigade not far from us. 

I will now refer to my journal again. 

Friday, June 3d. Relieved this morning by the left wing 
of the regiment. Went back into breastworks and got breakfast. 
Stayed until night. Went on skirmish-line. 

Saturday, 4th. Shot several rounds. Rained considerable. 
Very muddy in the rifle-pit. Although it was very disagreeable, 
still we had our fun. Some of the boys concluded to play a 
trick on the rebels ; so they would take off their blouses and 
caps, put them on their ramrods, and elevate them just above 
the top of the works, when the Johnnies would send a volley at 
them. They would then drop them as though they had been 
shot. We imagined we could hear the rebs saying, ^' There 
goes another d— d Yank." This was continued some time, 
until they found out the trick. Fighting on our left. On reserve 
at night. 

Sunday, 5th. Rebels left this morning. Some sharp 
shooting. Milton Bennett, of Company E, was killed this 
morning while cleaning his gun. Although not in front, still a 
shot would come over us once in a while, and the sharp "ping " 
of the Minnie-ball, as well as the coarser sound of the cannon- 
ball, could be heard. Went over to the rebel lines, or, rather, 
what had been their lines. Notwithstanding they had been 
driven back, and retreated from place to place, defeated at every 
point, still they told the most extravagant stories and published 
the most arrogant lies in order to deceive the people of the 
South and keep them in good spirits. Yet the rank and file 



THE SEVENTY FOURTH. * 73 

of the rebel army were discouraged, and would have given up 
long before the war ended, had it not l)een for their leaders. A 
southern gentleman, not a great while ago, who had been a 
soldier in the rebel army, while taking on this subject, remarked 
that they hated Jeff Davis probably as bad as we did, and would 
have shot him had they the chance. Notwithstanding they were 
enemies, and on the field we shot at them, still there were some 
good fellows among them ; and when not engaged in battle we 
would often trade with them, while on picket, meeting each 
other half way. VVe gave them coffee, and they would give us 
tobacco or cornmeal. Sometimes we would trade papers, when 
we had them. 

I will give a little incident that transpired once, although 
not in our regiment. I got it for truth : One morning, while 
our boys were preparing breakfast, I suppose the aroma of the 
coffee — something scarce with the rebs — greeted the olfactory 
organs of some of them who were on duty not far from the 
Union lines. A Johnnie got up on the works and shouted over, 
^' Hello, Yanks! what are you doing over thar?" "Getting 
breakfast," was the reply. "Got any coffee?" "Yes." 
" Will you give a feller some if he will come over?" "Yes; 
leave your gun." "Honor bright?" "Yes." And over he 
came. " Why," said he, "you fellers live pretty well, don't 
you? Always got this much to eat?" "Yes," was the reply. 
[I guess they stretched the blanket a little here. — Author.] 
They invited him to stay and get breakfast. He did so. After 
breakfast he said, " I believe you live better than we do. I 
believe, if you will let me stay, I'll not go back." He did stay, 
and made a good Union soldier, and was finally mustered out 
as such. 

June 6th. Marched after the rebels. Marched on till 
about ten o'clock, and halted and remained in the woods all day 
and night. 



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June 7th. Moved about two hundred yards up m the 
woods, and put up tents. Some rain in the evening. 

June 8th. In camp. Drew rations. Received mail. 

June 0th. In camp. Inspection of arms. 

June 10th. Started on the march again. Marched out of 
camp and rested. Resumed the march. Thunder shower. 
Rained quite hard. 

June 11th. Rained this morning. Captain Armstrong 
joined us this morning. Marched in Une of battle through the 
w^oods. Halted and commenced fortifying, but quit and 
marched on about a mile. Maneuvered around considerable 
during the night, but finally got into position and built breast- 
works; then camped for the night. 

Sunday, 12th. A very wet and disagreeable day, conse- 
quently the chaplain did not preach. 

Monday, 13th. By request of the regiment, the chaplain 
preached a thanksgiving sermon, which was afterward printed 
and published. 

•Tuesday, 14th. Went out on picket at six o'clock a. m., 
and then advanced the line. After standing picket two hours, 
we were thrown forward as skirmishers, and came near being 
shot. As we neared the rebel lines we were marching in column 
down a road, with trees and bushes on either side. Although 
there was no firing in front, yet we could hear the skirmishers 
on our right and left. We were going to fill up a gap, and had 
advanced farther than we supposed, when suddenly there came 
a whistling of bullets about our ears. We did not wait for the 
command to deploy as skirmishers, but every man hunted a tree 
and went to work, and, strange to say, although the balls whis- 
tled very close to us, not a man in our squad was touched. But 
the same bullets that were fired at us went on to the regiment, 
killing one man and wounding another. This corroborates the 



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75 



statement made elsewhere, th^t it is as dangerous in the rear as 
in front. 

That was the day, I think, the rebel General Polk was 
killed. He was killed by the Sixth Indiana Battery, I think, 
though I may possibly be mistaken. It is said that General 
Sherman, seeing a group of rebel generals on Pine Mountain, 
rode up to the lines and inquired for a battery. He was told 
that one was close at hand. He ordered it brought up, placed 
in position, loaded, and discharged. He then ordered it loaded 
a second time and discharged. Then he said, ''That will do; " 
and he immediately rode off. That battery was immediately in 
our rear, and the balls went over our heads. 

That afternoon I stood up behind a tree, scarcely large 
enough to protect my body, from two o'clock until after dark, 
loading and firing, discharging sixty-three rounds of cartridges. 
The tree was skinned in several places by rebel bullets. Had I 
ventured to look around I might have had my napper taken. 
We loaded and fired at will, no officers being there to give 
orders. It was when the privates were on picket that they were 
their own men. They were not often troubled with officers 
then. 

An incident transpired that afternoon which I will relate ; 
Not far from the tree where I stood, a soldier was squatting 
down behind a tree, when a bullet from a rebel gun penetrated 
the ground immediately under him, without touching him. As 
may readily be supposed, he immediately arose to his feet and^ 
got on the other side of the tree. An old, gray-headed man 
belonging to another regiment — I can not say what one — some 
rods in the rear, seeing the man jump up so quickly and change 
his position, without any orders, came down to where our picket 
was standing, and, on learning the cause of the sudden move- 
ment—the soldier telling him he thought the bullet came from a 
rebel sharp-shooter in a tree — the old man proceeded forthwith, 



76 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

as he said, to see if he could find put where that fellow was. It 
seemed that he had no fear, as he advanced beyond the line and 
peered up among the trees as though he were hunting a squirrel. 
He was gone but a few minutes, when he returned and told the 
man he might sit down again, as he did not think the fellow 
would shoot any more — intimating as much as that he had 
fixed him. . 

On the 15th of June we again advanced, driving the rebels 
before us. We then halted and fortified. 

June 16th. Moved to the right, and drew rations. Pretty 
sharp shooting on the right. Heavy cannonading, supposed to 
be shelling the rebel train. 

June 17th. Advanced about half a mile. Built works. 
Heavy fighting. Took fourteen prisoners to day. Drew rations. 
Heavy skirmishing at night. 

June 18th. Advanced again. Got under fire of rebel 
shells and bullets. Built works under fire. Three of the boys 
wounded to-day, among them Sergeant T. C. Hook, of Company 
A. Rained very hard while lying on our faces in line of battle. 

June 19th. 1 was on picket, and went out to the rebel 
works; but they were gone. Our pickets followed them about 
two miles, when we returned to the regiment. We were then 
approaching Kennesaw Mountain, the Seventy-fourth in the 
rear. It was a grand sight as we approached the mountain, the 
shells from our batteries exploding on the side of the mountain, 
\and the rebel shells from the top. 

June 20th. The Seventy-fourth in the rear. Drew rations. 
Moved a short distance and put up tents, with orders for inspec- 
tion at four o'clock. Cleaned guns. Were ready for inspection, 
when we received orders to move right away. We moved in 
ifront, to Leatherbreeches' or Buckskin's battery. This Leather- 
breeches' right name was Captain Dilger. He was the most 
skillful and plucky officer in the Union service. When the war 



TBE SEVENTY- FOURTH. 77 

broke out Captain Dilger was an artillery officer in the Prussian 
service. A short time after the battle of Bull Run, an uncle of 
Dilger's — a merchant in New York — wrote that the present 
was an opportune time to visit America, etc. Dilger was 
desirous of studying war as carried on in the western world, and 
to this end procured leave of absence for a year. As soon as he 
arrived he joined the Army of the Potomac as an artillerist, and 
commanded a battery. As his year drew to a close he managed 
to get his leave indefinitely extended. The term of his battery 
— the P'irst Ohio Artillery — having expired, he was ordered to 
Cincinnati, to be mustered out of the service. His next appear- 
ance with his battery was under General Hooker; and by the 
name of Leatherbreeches, or Buckskin, he became known to 
every officer and soldier in the Army of the Cumberland. In 
all the battles which occurred, from Lookout Mountain to Peach 
Tree Creek, Captain Dilger was on hand. He was the first to 
open fire on the eve of a battle, taking his guns nearly up to the 
skirmish line. On the eventful day of the Hooker and Johnson 
contest. Captain Dilger took his guns up to the skirmish-line, 
and for half an hour poured a raking fire of grape and canister 
into the enemy. So conspicuous and marked were his move- 
ments that he became at one time the target for three rebel 
batteries, and lost seven men during the day. He fired by 
volley when he got a good thing, and the acclamations of the 
infantry drowned the reverberations of the cannon's roar. On 
all such occasions Captain Dilger impressed every one by his 
fine appearance. He always wore close buckskin breeches — 
whicli gave him the name — with top boots, and stood by his 
gun in his shirt sleeves during battle, eliciting the admiration of 
the whole army by his coolness and intrepidity in action. I 
have seen him sitting in a port-hole of the works, with his glass, 
watching the effect of his shots on the enemy. The Seventy- 
fourth was ordered to support this battery, the men being in the 



78 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

works on each side of a large twelve-pound Napoleon gun. 
For two days and nights we were in this position, and, although 
the roar of artillery was almost deafening, still we could sleep. 

On the 22d of June the rebels shelled us from the mountain, 
and the air was filled with bursting shells. I believe this was 
the day when Colonel Findley had erected his shelter-tent a little 
way from the works, and had gone to the woods for some leaves 
and twigs to sleep upon. When he returned, his tent was 
perfectly riddled. I suppose it was struck by grape-shot. Had 
he remained in his tent he would most undoubtedly have been 
killed. The Colonel removed his quarters after that. 

On the 23d we moved to the right, after dark, where we 
remained until the 3d of July. 

While lying before Kennesaw Mountain we had some heavy 
fighting. One day a solid twelve-pound shot struck our works, 
burying itself in the earth, and almost cutting a log in two six 
inches through. 

July 1st. I was on the skirmish-line. Samuel Mulford, of 
Company B, was wounded in the arm. Stood up behind a 
small tree and shot forty-five rounds of cartridges that afternoon. 
Some of the rebel shots came very close to me. The tree, 
doubtless, saved my life. 

July 2d. Went on fatigue duty to the left, to build works, 
and worked all night. During the night the rebels left the 
mountain, and the next day we started in pursuit of them. 
They left some of their dead on the field. We passed through 
the town of Marietta, and on the Fourth of July we halted in an 
oat-field. Cut bushes and made a shade, it being very hot. We 
then fell into line and marched about a mile. Halted, stacked 
arms, and remained an hour, and then returned to camp. 

July 5th. Advanced about three miles, and went on the 
skirmish-line. Remained all the afternoon and night. Sergeant 
Stipe, of Company B, was wounded. 



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July 6th. Relieved from picket. Went to the rear and 
drew rations. Had a view of Atlanta from the hill-top, where 
they were planting a battery. 

July 7th. Resting behind the hill in the wood. Very hot. 
Went up to Buckskin's battery and took a view of Atlanta, 
through a glass, distant from that point eight miles. We were 
then approaching the Chattahoochie River. We went into camp, 
and remained until the 17th of July. 

On the 9th we went out to the front line, which was 
advanced. Sergeant James, of Company E, was here wounded. - 

On the 10th the rebels retreated beyond the Chattahoochie, 
we following them to the river, skirmishing through the woods. 

July 17th. Received orders to march at seven o'clock. 
Accordingly we packed up, ready, but did not march until the 
afternoon. Crossed the Chattahoochie on pontoons, skirmishing 
through the woods. Advanced about a mile and fortified. 

July 18th. In advance. Drove the rebels to-day. Halted 
and fortified. 

On the 20th we advanced about a mile, and halted in an 
old field, where we remained until about three o'clock in the 
morning ; then marched on and crossed Peach Tree Creek at a 
mill. Went on a little further, and halted in the woods and 
remained till morning. Advanced again in skirmish-line. We 
were not long on the skirmish-line when we were relieved by the 
Twentieth Corps. W^e moved to the right, and got under cover 
of the hill, and remained all night. 

On the next day the regiment advanced, and several of the 
Seventy-fourth boys were wounded, among whom was Captain 
McElravy, of Company G. 

July 22d. Advanced toward Atlanta. This day we lost 
three of our boys: John Forbes, John Hennessy, and Addison 
Tolbert. Several others made narrow escapes. George 
Kempher, of Company C, had a hole shot through his knapsack 



80 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

while lying on his face toward the enemy. General MePhersoii' 
was killed to day. We were on the second line of forti^cations. 
Immediately in the rear was the Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry. A man was killed, to-day, by a shell. The shell 
passed through the top of the tree where I was sitting, and a 
fragment of the same struck the man on the head, completely 
taking off the upper portion of the same, and scattering his 
brains all around. I saw it strike him. He never knew what 
hurt him. Such a sight now would seem terrible ; but we had 
become accustomed to it then. 

July 24th. Not much fighting to-day. A demonstration 
was made at night, in order to find, if possible, the enemy's 
batteries. It was done in this wise : At a given signal, every 
man along the line was to fire his gun and yell at the top of his 
voice, which was done: but it did not serve to draw the enemy 
out. 

July 26th. We moved to the rear about a quarter of a 
mile. 

July 28th. Fell into line and moved to the right about four 
miles. Very hot. Some of the boys came near giving out. 
Hard fighting on the right. Rebels charged our lines seven 
times, -and were repulsed every time with heavy loss. We 
marched to the extreme right rtank and built works after night, 
and remained until morning. Next day we returned to our old 
camp, had a meeting of Company C, and appointed a committee 
to draft resolutions in regard to the death of the boys wlio were 
killed on the 22d. 

July )>Oth. Wrote resolutions, which were approved by the 
company, and sent to friends and papers. 

August 2d. We moved to the right again, and relieved 
the Forty-second Indiana Regiment. The next day we were 
relieved by the Twenty- third Corps. Drew rations, and moved 
to the right and put up tents. 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 81 

August 4th. This was a day of fasting and prayer^ 
appointed by the President. Chaplain preached in the morning. 
Moved, in the afternoon, to the right. We had a hot, fatiguing, 
march of several miles, and directly back again. 

August 5th. Lying back of works. Rebels threw several 
shells at us. Moved back into works that we left. Bands of 
music playing at night. 

August (>th. In front line. Skirmish advanced. Building 
works. 

August 8th. Was detailed to work on works in front. 
Worked a while, when the regiment came and worked likewise. 
Rained in afternoon. 

August 9th. In front line. Skirmish-line advanced to-day. 
Building works in front. 

August 10th. Went out at twelve o'clock at night to work 
on breastworks in front. Worked until daylight. " Relieved by 
the Twenty-first Ohio. Came back to camp. 

August 11th. Went on picket at night, it being dangerous 
to relieve pickets in the daytime, the picket-line being within a 
few rods of the rebel line. Stayed in reserve until four o'clock 
in the morning. It was very disagreeable that night, raining a 
good portion of the time, so as to render sleep impossible. 
When we got into the pit, it was nearly filled with mud and 
water; and after daylight it was very risky standing up. We 
could not stand up, lie, or sit down, but had to remain in a 
crouching position, which was very tiresome. The pits were 
about a rod apart, and there were about six men in a pit. Ser- 
geant Slasher, Charley Newman, Faber, of Company K, and 
myself were in the same pit. While Sergeant Slasher was going 
from one pit to another, he was just in the act of jumping down 
into our pit when a rebel shot at him, grazing his back. He 
said it smarted like fire, and got me to examine it; and right 
across the small of his back was a red streak, but no blood. The 



82 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

sergeant was talking, before that, of going to the regiment for 
some rations ; but he concluded to stay in the pit until after 
night, and do without his dinner. I had my bayonet shot from 
my gun in the same pit, the rebs and our men keeping up a 
constant fire day and night. 

August 13th. Moved over to the front line and relieved 
the Sixty-ninth Ohio. 

August 14th. John Quinn, of Company A, was wounded, 
this morning, while cooking his breakfast ; and Pat. Doyle, of 
Company I, was wounded while going out on skirmish-line. 

August 15th. Very hot. John Seldomridge, James, and 
myself put up a tent, and then cut some bushes for a shade. 

August 18th. There was some heavy fighting. Although 
not actively engaged, we fe:l into line behind the works and 
took arms, expecting every moment to be called out. * 

August 19th. The regiment moved to- the rear line. It 
rained very hard at night. I secured a board, and laid it on a 
couple of logs, to keep off the ground. I then took my govern- 
ment blanket and spread it on the board to lie on, then took my 
gum blanket and stretched it over me ; and, although the rain 
fell in torrents, in the morning I was dry and comfortable. 

August 20th. Went on skirmish-line. Very disagreeable 
from the rain. Came near being shot. I had become very tired 
in the pit, and in the afternoon, the firing having slacked up, I 
thought I would get out on the bank and rest a while, the rebel 
works being in plain view only a few rods away, although I 
could see no rebs. Tliey had logs on top of their works, and a 
crack underneath to shoot through, without being exposed them- 
selves. The thought struck me that perhaps I was too much 
exposed, and that I had better get back into the pit, when I put 
that thought into immediate execution. I had hardly got down 
— my head being just below the works — when zip! a bullet 
came, and went into the ground just behind me. Had I 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 83 

remained in that position a second longer, I would have been 
shot through the body. 

August 25th. We left the front of Atlanta at night, marched 
about five miles, and halted till morning. 

August 26th. Moved over to the edge of the woods, to 
the shade. Rained to-day. Moved out a short distance, and 
then back again in the same place. Remained there a while, 
then marched to the right. Halted at the works, and remained 
all night. 

August 27th. Put up tents at daylight ; then moved about 
the length of two battalions. Cut tent-poles. Fortified and 
remained all night. 

August 28th. Ordered to march at six o'clock. Passed 
the Fourth Army Corps, and marched on to the Atlanta & Mont- 
gomery Railroad. Halted in a cornfield, and had green corn 
for supper. 

August 29th. Arose early, and had another mess of green 
corn for breakfast. The method of cooking roasting-ears, as 
adopted by some of the boys, was as follows ; They would take 
an ear of corn, stick it on the end of a ramrod, and hold it over 
the fire until roasted. Another way was to throw the ear into 
the fire with the husk on, and by the time the husk was burned 
off the ear would be done. We marched down the railroad a 
mile and a half, tore up the track, burned the ties, and twisted 
the rails. We could see the smoke for miles. 

August 30th. Started on the march to the Macon Railroad. 
Marched a few miles and halted on a hillside. Went on picket 
at night. 

August 31st. Started on the march again. Moved a piece 
to the right, and halted in the woods. Marched on farther, to a 
farm-house. Saw some wounded men, who had been in a fight 
on the railroad. 

September 1st. Marched on the rebels, the Seventy-fourth 



84 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

in front. Charged on the rebel skirmishers, across an open 
field. The rebels had a field-piece on their skirmish line, and a 
shot from it wounded a man in Company B. We advanced a 
short distance, and were ordered to lie down. In a short time 
we were ordered to arise, and forward march. There was a 
fence about two hundred yards ahead of us, and Colonel Given 
said, " Boys, if we can gain that fence the day is ours." So on 
we went, on the double quick, raising the yell. We reached the 
fence in safety, the rebel bullets, most of them, falling short of 
us, though some struck near. When a bullet struck the ground 
it would raise the dust. After reaching the fence we rested a 
while. Meanwhile the rebels had made a precipitate retreat. 
We followed them up, wading a stream of water, but never 
stopping till we got to the top of the hill, when we sent a volley 
' after them ; then loaded and gave them a second volley as they 
were retreating through the woods. I presume, however, that 
they were too far off by the time we reached the top of the hill 
for our balls to reach them, as they were cavalry. We were 
then ordered to build breastworks, and commenced work, but 
did not complete them before we were ordered forward again. 
We marched on until we came in sight of the railroad; then 
formed line of batde and marched through the woods until our 
skirmishers again encountered the rebels and drove them into 
their works. We then advanced across another field, the line 
of battle on our right steadily advancing, and keeping up a 
steady fire of musketry, not much artillery being used. We 
advanced to the woods ; and, while marching on the right flank, 
Melville Davis, of Company C, was shot and mortally wounded. 
As he fell, he brushed me as he went down. I immediately 
called for a stretcher, and we placed him on it and carried him 
a short distance, out of range of the bullets, and laid him down 
on the grass. I knelt down beside him and asked him if he was 
hurt much. He looked up in my face — and, oh ! such a look, 



THE SEVENTY FOURTH. 85 

a look which only a dying man could give — and said, ''O Ira, 
I am mortally wounded! " These were the last words he ever 
spoke to me, as I had to immediately join the regiment, which 
was now passing forward in the thickest of the fight. 

Melville Davis was my schoolmate, and my nearest neigh- 
bor. I had known him from a child, being a little older than 
he. He had been married, but his wife had preceded him to 
the better land a short time before he enlisted. His time was 
nearly out, lacking only a few days. He had never been home 
since he left. He was fondly anticipating the near approach of 
his discharge, when he should be allowed to go home to see his 
widowed mother, brothers, and friends. He and I often con- 
versed about them ; and that very morning, before we entered 
the field, expecting a battle, he talked of home and friends, and 
said to me if he should be killed that day he hoped he would be 
better off. He spoke of his darling wife, whom, he said, was 
free from all the anxieties and cares of this world. He was 
taken to the hospital, where he died in a day or two. A short 
time before he died, I have been informed, he called for his 
knapsack, and requested his wife's picture. On its being 
handed him, he looked at it, then kissed it, saying, " I will soon 
be with you." Melville was a good boy, and I have no doubt 
that he has joined his companion in a world where there is no 
more war or parting of friends. 

But to return to the regiment. On we went, through a 
thick growth of pine, amid a perfect shower of grape and 
canister — for we were fronting a rebel battery — and minnie- 
balls, literally cutting shrubs, bushes, and branches of trees, at 
which time eleven of the Seventy-fourth were killed and thirty- 
three wounded, a number of whom afterwards died. William 
H. Hollenberry, another near neighbor, was also killed. He, 
and Davis, and I lived in sight of each other. He was the son 
of a widow, also, Mrs. Hannah Hollenberry. I did not see 



86 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

him fall, for we fought until after dark, and I got lost from the 
regiment. They had retreated to the rear, and I did not know 
it. I suppose, however, in groping my way back, I stumbled 
over his dead body, as we found it next morning where I suppose 
I felt it. I helped to carry him across a field and bury him 
where we buried the others. Before we put him in the ground 
I took my knife and cut off a lock of his hair, and sent it to his 
mother and sisters. He did not re enlist, and his time was 
nearly out. But, poor fellow, he received his final discharge. 
Henry was a good boy, and a good, faithful soldier. James H. 
Moore, of Company C, was also killed in that engagement. 

The Seventy fourth was repulsed, the first time, and .fell 
back to the edge of the woods, but immediately rallied, driving 
the enemy out of their works. We then fell back in good order, 
and remained all night, leaving our dead on the field, the rebels 
keeping up an artillery fire until after dark, and leaving their 
dead and wounded. 

General Sherman, leaving the Twentieth Corps, withdrew 
the rest of his army from before Atlanta, and the rebels began 
to rejoice over his supposed retreat, when he suddenly re-appeared 
to their astonished vision, fifteen miles south of Atlanta, 
attacking them at Jonesboro, and capturing their works, ten 
guns, and two hundred prisoners, and inflicting upon them a loss 
of three thousand killed and wounded. The rebel General 
Hood, being completely "hoodwinked," in the words of General 
Sherman, blew up his magazines at Atlanta, and left in the 
night-time. We could hear the noise very distincdy, from 
Jonesboro, and supposed it was a battle between the Twentieth 
Corps and Hood. But General Slocum, with the Twentieth 
Corps, took quiet possession of the city. The next day we 
buried our dead in an old orchard. It was a sad time. We 
carried them about a half mile, laid them down on the ground 
until we dug their graves, and then committed them to the 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 87 

ground, putting, sometimes, two in one grave» Considering the 
chances we had, they were interred very decently. We rolled 
them carefully in their blankets, and then procured boards and 
put around them, to keep the dirt from their bodies. Thus we 
left our comrades who, only the day before, were as full of life 
and bid fair to live as long as any of us. We left them alone, 
in an enemy's land, and on the 6th started for Atlanta, and 
marched a short distance the next day. We marched within 
three miles of Atlanta and went into camp, remaining at that 
place until the 10th, when we moved about a mile and again 
went into camp. Our marching and fighting was now over, at 
least for a while. 

In order to show how we passed the time while in camp 
near Atlanta, I will again refer to my journal. 

September 11th. Regiment on picket. 

September 12th. On fatigue. 

September 13th. Regiment went to bury Lieutenant 
Bricker, who died at the divison hospital, in consequence of 
wounds received at Jonesboro. 

September 14th. In camp. Fine weather. Chaplain 
preached at night. 

September IGth. In camp. Meeting of Company C. 
Drew up resolutions in regard to the death of Melville Davis, 
W. H. Hollenberry, and James H. Moore. 

September 18th. Meeting at night. A committee appointed 
to draft resolutions in regard to soldiers who had died in battle. 
Meeting adjourned until next day. 

September 19th. Meeting of the Seventy-fourth. Chaplain 
McFarland made a few remarks. Resolutions adopted. 

September 20th. John Norwood, James Johnson, and 
Basel Lucas came to the regiment tc-day. 

September 23d. Corps inspection. . 

September 24th. Went to Atlanta. 



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September 25th. Inspection at eight o'clock in the 
morning. 

September 26th. Regiment on picket. 

September 28th. Came into camp. 

September 30th. BattaUon drill. 

October 1st. Colonel Given had dress parade for the last 
time, this evening, at which time he made a farewell address to 
the regiment, and presented his sw^ord to the officers. 

October 3d. Started on the march after Hood. Colonel 
Given beat the drum out of camp, and then left us. We 
marched on to the Chattahoochie River, and crossed after night. 
Hard marching, and very tired. Rained at night. The next 
day wQ resumed the march, and continued on the tramp all day, 
halting in an open field where there was plenty of grass. 

October 4th. Drew rations at one o'clock at night, with 
orders to march at four o'clock, but did not start until noon. 

October 5th. Again on the march, along a very crooked 
road, toward Kennesaw Mountam. Marched on until after 
night. Dark and muddy. Halted, and got a cup of coffee; 
then marched on again about a mile and a half, and halted on 
the side of a stony hill and camped. Rained at night. The 
next morning it was' still raining, and very disagreeable. Started 
on the march, in the rain. Passed Kennesaw Mountain. The 
roads w^ere quite muddy. Went about five miles and halted, 
camping near the Big Shanty. 

October 7th. Resting and cleaning up. Some fighting 
to-day. A w^ounded rebel general was brought in. 

October 8th. Started on the march again at three o'clock, 
and marched until we reached Lost Mountain, and then turned 
to the north. Met some rebel prisoners. Weather much cooler. 

October 9th. Cool to-day. Went on picket, where we 
experienced the cold rfuite severely. Continued marching the 
next day, passing through the Altoona pass. 



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October 11th. The regiment halted on the roadside and 
held the election. Marched to Kingston, and halted, in the 
thick woods and camped. I was quite sick, here, with the 
chills. 

October 12th. Received mail just as we were starting on 
the march. Rode in ambulance to-day. 

October 13th. Went into camp not far from Rome, and 
stayed until nearly night, when we started again. Rode in the 
ambulance until midnight, then joined the regiment. 

October 14th. Marched hard all day, passing through 
Calhoun, and on to Resaca, where we again camped, near the 
railroad. Saw where the rebels had torn up the road. Fighting 
' in front. 

October 15th. Again on the march. Marched on until 
after night, to the foot of the mountain, when we encamped. 

October 16th. Began to climb the mountain, which was 
very hard, laborious work, indeed, there being merely a bridle- 
path. Part of the way the path was so narrow that we had to 
march Indian file. We descended the mountain into Snake 
Gap, through which we passed, taking a southern course until 
night, when we camped again, in sight of Lookout Mountain. 

October 17th. Started again on the march, in the Chatooga 
valley. Fine country. Taylor's Ridge on our left. Passed 
through some rebel camps, which had been occupied only a 
short time previous. 

October 20th. We passed into Alabama, to-day, through 
some fine country, camping at night near Galesville, where we 
remained for several days, foraging around, principally for 
potatoes, which were a scarce luxury. 

October 24th. Drew rations, and started on a scouting 
expedition with the Third Brigade — Colonel Hambright — 
among the Chatooga Mountains, in search of the rebel Gatewood 
and his band, who were supposed to be secreted in the 



90 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

mountains. We marched about eight miles, crossed the Chatooga 
River,. and then camped. The regiment were very indignant at 
this marching of the men so far for nothing. It proved nothing 
but a wild-goose chase. The men had a hard, toilsome march \ 
yet those in authority were not satisfied with that, but must 
make the men march some fifty or sixty miles for nothing, while 
they were taking their ease, smoking their cigars, lounging 
around their head- quarters, and getting big pay, while the poor 
private soldiers, who got the least pay, did all the work. On 
that scout I thought of the rich man and Lazarus. The rich 
man was clothed with purple and fine linen, and fared sumptu- 
ously every day, while Lazarus lay at his gate and begged the 
crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. But Lazarus died, 
and the rich man also died. He had his good things in this 
world. But I need not follow the subject. All Bible readers 
are acquainted with the sequel. 

October 28th. We started on the march toward Rome, 
passing through Galesville, and crossing the Chatooga River. 
We marched about two miles, and camped. 

October 29th. Marched to Rome, twenty two miles, and 
camped near the Coosa River. 

November 2d. Marched to Kingston. It rained, which 
made it very muddy and disagreeable. Marched eighteen miles, 
and camped near Kingston. While in Kingston we voted, it 
being the presidential election. 

November 8th. We remained at Kingston until the 12th, 
when we left, and marched to Cartersville, eighteen miles. Left 
Cartersville next day and crossed th^ Etawah River, passing 
over the Altoona Mountains. Marched on to Big Shanty. 
Tore up the railroad at night. Marched on to the Chattahoo- 
chie River and camped. Passed Kennesaw Mountain and 
Marietta. 



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91 



November 15th. Marched to Atlanta and received new 
colors. Camped near the city and drew clothing, and prepared 
for the grand march to the sea. The city of Adanta was burned 
at night, making a grand and magnificent sight. 

November 16th. We started on what is known as 
''Sherman's March to the Sea." Marched twenty-five miles 
toward Augusta, and camped at a little town called Lithonia. 

November 17th. Marched on to Yellow River and 
camped. 

November 18th. Again on the march. Passed through 
Covington, the Seventy-fourth in advance. It was amusing to 
see the negroes running to see " de Yankees," and hear their 
remarks. "Why," they said, ''dey looks just like' our 
people; dey ain't got no horns." An old woman caught sight 
of our new colors, and said, " Law sakes I Did you eber see 
such a pretty thing ? " We passed one house where there were 
a lot of girls standing in the door. I overheard one remark to 
another, "Why that is not half as pretty a flag as ours." 
Another soldier heard the remark, and asked her if she would 
not like a piece of his shirt for a flag. We halted about noon 
on the plantation of a Mr. John Harris, and remained there 
during the day and night. Drew rations at night General 
Sherman's head quarters were on the same plantation. I was at 
his head-quarters in the afternoon. He had his tent pitched in 
the yard, and was sitting in the porch of the mansion watching 
some soldiers, who had found a barrel of molasses in an out- 
house. The boys had got one head out, and were going for 
the molasses, dipping in and strewing it all around. The 
general sat there laughing at them. When he saw that a few 
were appropriating it all to themselves, he ordered the barrel 
taken to the commissary's and issued out, so that it might be 
equally distributed. 



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On the march we passed through a place called Shady 
Dale, which consisted of a large plantation and a small town 
•of negro quarters, 
or cabins. The 
brigade band played 
a quickstep tune as 
we went through, 
and the negroes 
flocked out to see 
us and hear the 
music, particularly 
the women, some of 
whom' followed us for over a mile, or, rather, kept up with the 
band, dancing and keeping time to the music, and cutting up 
all kinds of didoes. 

We passed through the village of Sand Town on the 
morning of the 21st, in the rain, without breakfast, but after 
marching some^miles we halted and got something to eat. 

November 22d. On the march again. The Seventy fourth 
detailed as train-guard. Camped at Mud Creek, at night, in a 
pine grove. 

November 23d. Again on the march, the morning being 
cold and the ground slightly frozen. Arrived at Milledgeville, 
the capital of Georgia, which we left the next day at seven 
o'clock, marching until about three o'clock,. We then camped 
and went on picket duty, and also drew rations. 

November 25th. The regiment went foraging, and caught 
an old bushwhacker and brought him into camp, together with 
plenty of forage. 

November 2Gth. Started and marched a few miles, to a 
swamp, and camped. 

November 27th. Marched through the swamp, it having 
previously been corduroyed, or, in other words, made passable 



THE SEVENTY- FOURTH. 93- 

by poles being cut and laid crosswise. After passing the swamp 
we marched over a good road until we came to the Georgia 
Central Railroad, about four miles from Davisboro, where we 
camped during the remainder of the day, having passed through 
the town of SandersviUe. 

November 28th. On the march. Passed through the town 
of Davisboro. Here the boys found a lot of peanuts, up stairs,- 
in an untenanted building, the floor being about a foot thick 
with the same. Some went, with sacks, and loaded themselves, 
and, as a consequence, the road was soon strewn for a long 
distance with the hulls. Crossed the Ogeechee River at night, 
on pontoons. Here we saw the palm-leaf growing. 

November 29lh. Marched a short distance, passing 
through the town of Louisville, Jefferson County, Georgia. 

November 30th. Marched to Sebastopol Station. 

December 1st. Marched a short distance to the crossroads 
and went on picket, remaining all night, the Twentieth Corps 
passing in the night. 

December 2d. Started again, and marched to another 
crossroads; then turned to the right and marched until noon, 
halting for dinner in a cotton-field. Marched six miles farther 
and camped, making about fifteen miles that day. 

December 3d. Marched around and across fields. Crossed 
Buckhead Creek on pontoons. Marched on to the Augusta 
Railroad and camped. 

December 4th. Tore up the Augusta & Savannah Rail- 
road; then started again on the march, camping a few miles 
farther on. Rebels in our rear, firing at us. 

December 5th. Marched nearly ail day through pine 
woods, and camped at night in a sandy cornfield. 

December 6th. Again on the march. Warm weather. 
Camped in the woods. On picket. 

December 7th. On the march. Rain. Very warm 



94 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

Aveather. Hard marching. Boys went foraging and brought in 
some fresh meat. Had to carry it until after night, when we 
halted twenty-seven miles from Savannah. 

December 8th. Started again. Marched about three 
miles; then halted, and remained until about ten o'clock. 
Marched again, crossing Ebenezer Creek. Went about two 
miles and camped near a grave-yard, in the woods. Heard 
cannonading in the direction of Savannah. Skirmishing in the 
rear. 

December 9th. We crossed the great swamp, and halted 
in a field for dinner. Camped in the woods at night. Skir- 
mishing in front. 

December 10th. Passed a rebel fort on the road. Went a 
few miles and camped. Rained at night. 

On the 11th of December we arrived at, or in front of. 
Savannah, or as near the city as we could get, the rebels having 
fortified it. There is a canal leading from the Savannah River 
to the Ogeeche, for the purpose of supplying water to the rice 
plantations, as rice grows under water. A short distance apart 
there are flood-gates, and when they wish to overflow the land 
they hoist these gates. The rebels made use of these gates to 
overflow the country, so that Sherman's army could not approach 
the city. We, however, camped along the canal and threw out 
a picket-line, and prepared to stay until communications by 
water should be opened around Savannah. There is a long 
moss that grows on the trees, hanging in festoons from them, 
sometimes four or five feet long. The boys used to get this 
moss, and cut the palm leaves, and, by spreading the palm-leaves 
on the ground and the moss on them, it made a very comfortable 
bed. 

There was a battery almost directly in front of our regiment 
that used to fire every day ; but the balls would always go over 
our heads. This they kept up for several days, until, one day. 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 95 

it was noticed that they did not fire any. Toward night, or after 
night, the battery spiked all their guns and came over on the 
Union side. They said they had been watching for an opportu- 
nity to desert the rebels ever since the Union troops arrived, but 
were watched by their officers. By making a feint, however, of 
keeping up a cannonading at the Union, lines, they so deceived 
their officers that they thought they might trust them alone ; but 
as soon as the rebel officers left they came over. 

December 13th. Fort McAllister was taken to-dav, which 
caused great rejoicing along our lines. As soon as the news 
came, they commenced at one end, and the cry went from one 
brigade to another, "Fort McAllister is taken, and the cracker 
iine is open ! " 

On the 16th we went to the Ogeeche River for rations, the 
Savannah River not yet being open to the city. We arrived at 
the river and camped near it, waiting our turn to load, the next 
day. We remained at the Ogeeche River until the 23d. 
During the time we were there, it being very warm weather, we 
had to live .principally on rice, which we gathered from the 
fields. Near our camp were some negro cabins, and in them we 
found mortars, with which we would make the negroes hull our 
rice, which was done by putting the unhulled rice into the 
mortars and pounding it. Then we took it out, and, putting it 
in our blankets, blew the chaff out. We loaded our wagons 
and started back to Savannah. Meanwhile the rebels had left, 
and our troops were in peaceable possession of the city. 

December 25th. Went to Savannah, and went to the 
Baptist church. Heard a sermon delivered by the Rev. Mr. 
Landrum. After church I started around the city, and, passing 
along the street, I saw an old negro woman standing in a door. 
I spoke to her, and asked if she could give a soldier something 
to eat. She replied, "Yes, massa, I do dat; come in." I 
went in ; and the old woman had what is called an ash-cake in 



96 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

the fireplace. An old Virginian would know what an ash cake 
is. It is made by taking corn dough and covering it up in the 
ashes, and putting fire on it, like roasting potatoes. Taking her 
ash-cake from the fire and putting it on the table, she procured 
part of a turkey the white folks had given her, and some butter- 
milk. She invited me. to sit up and help myself. I did so, 
being very hungry. I thought I never ate a better meal. 

December 27th. There was a grand review of the 
Fourteenth Corps by General Sherman. Several high officials 
from Washington were in Savannah that day; among the rest, 
Secretary Stanton. 

December 30th. I^aid out and moved to a new camp, and 
put up a tent. Several of the boys joined together and put up 
tents. We cut poles and built open about ten feet square, then 
joined our shelter-tents together and made a roof in these tents. 
We remained until the 20th of January. Although there was a 
great deal of snow in the North that winter, yet there was none 
where we were. In fact it looked like summer-time. There 
the trees were evergreen all winter, especially in^ the city of 
Savannah. The streets were lined on each side with the tree 
known as the "Pride of India," or live-oak, whose leaves are 
evergreen. During the time we were in Savannah we worked 
on the fortifications around the city. 

January 20th. Received orders to march, and started out 
of camp in the rain. Marched eight miles through the mud and 
rain, until the army got mudbound, and could go no farther. 
We then turned out into a pine woods and halted. There was 
not a dry sdck to be found anywhere — nothing but green pine. 
The boys cut a tree and tried to make a fire, but it was no go. 
The rain put it out as fast as they could kindle it. We had 
marched in the rain nearly all day, and I had neglected to put 
on my gum blanket; consequently I was wet through. The 
uround was also covered with water. By taking a spade and 



THE SEVENTY- FOURTH. 97 

ditching, and throwing up the earth, we made a place to stretch 
our tents ; then taking our gum blankets and spreading them 
down, and our government blankets on them, we made our 
beds and retired without supper. 1 lay all night in my wet 
clothes, and the next morning there was the print of my body 
on the blanket ; yet, strange to say, I took no cold. The next 
day we managed to get a fire and something to eat, and about 
ten o'clock we went on picket, it raining nearly all day. 

January 25th. We left camp at seven o'clock in the morn- 
ing, and marched fifteen miles and camped. 

January 26th. Started again at seven o'clock. Marched 
hard, through swamps and woods, all day. 

January 27th. Regiment detailed as train guard. Marched 
all day. 

January 28th. Started again at noon, and marched through 
swamps and woods. Weather clear and cool. Camped two 
miles from Sister's Ferry. 

January 29th. Marched to Sister's Ferry. 

We remained at Sister's Ferry, on the Savannah River^ 
until the 5th of February. While at the ferry we spent the time 
in writing letters, skiff-riding, etc. One evening as four or five 
of us were out on the river, coming down to camp, we espied a 
flatboat, or barge, floating down the river, and which finally ' 
lodged against some trees or boughs on the opposite side of the 
river. We immediately headed our skiff for the boat, and, on 
coming alongside, discovered that no one was on board. We 
made our skiff" fast alongside, and immediately boarded her. 
It proved to be a boat loaded with salt beef, which had broken 
loose from her moorings at the landing, about a mile above, and 
had drifted down. We found a barrel that had the head out, 
and soon had some meat in the skiff, and then pulled for. camp. 
When we landed it was getting dark ; so we conveyed our 
property — for we considered it ours then — to camp, under 



98 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

cover of the darkness. It leaked out, however, some way, that 
we had found meat, and how we got it; and several boat-loads 
were brought into camp early next morning. So much was 
missing that the men who came after the boat suspected the 
boys taking it; and on coming to camp some of the meat was 
found. An order was immediately* issued that all the stolen 
meat should be brought to head-quarters. We had been very 
careful to secrete ours securely; and when the officers came 
around hunting and searching for the meat, none could be found 
in our quarters. Consequently we had plenty of meat for 
several days. 

Here our regimental band made fine progress. They would 
serenade the headquarters of the different departments. At 
one place — I do not now remember which one — there was a 
little negro boy who used to dance. Of all the droll antics dnd 
manners, he beat them all. He would sometimes stand on his 
head and keep time to the music, with his heels in the air. The 
boys played well, and made very good music. 

February 5th. Started at daylight and went two miles up 
the river and camped. Then loaded teams with rations, and 
drew clothing. 

February 6th. Started again on the march. Went some 
seven miles and camped. We were now on the soil of South 
Carolina, and the buildings along the road were all burned. 
No restrictions were laid here; and it seems that the soldiers, if 
possible, would have burned up the state — the hot-bed of 
secession. Whenever they came to a fine, palatial mansion — 
especially if it was ascertained that the owner was in the rebel 
army — the torch was soon applied. Houses, fences, trees — in 
fact, everything that it was possible to burn — were burned. A 
large amount of cotton and cotton-gins were burned to the 
ground and laid in ashes. There was a track made of about 
sixty miles wide, inside of which everything was destroyed — 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 99 

some think very unjustly, but I think just to the contrary; for 
Sherman's raid, I think, broke the backbone of the rebelUon. 
I will not, however, discuss that question. It has already been 
done by abler men and abler writers than I am. 

February 7th. Again on the march. Boys went foraging, 
and brought in fresh pork and sweet-potatoes. Marched twelve 
miles, and then camped. 

February 8th. Marched about a mile ; then camped and 
drew rations. Foragers came in well loaded with pork and 
potatoes. 

February 9th. Continued on the march. Cool and cloudy 
weather, with some snow. 

February 10th. Marched about fifteen miles to-day ; then 
camped and went on guard. 

February 11th. Left camp early, and marched to Barnwell 
and halted for dinner. We found the town burned. Camped 
that night two miles north of Barnwell. 

February 12th. Marched at seven o'clock. Crossed the 
Charleston & Augusta Railroad at Williston Station. 

February 13th. Stayed in camp all day, and started on the 
march at dark. Marched two miles, when we went into camp 
and drew rations. 

February 14th. Left camp at eight o'clock. It rained 
and sleeted all day. Marched twelve miles, and^ camped at 
dark. 

February 15th. Left camp at eight o'clock and marched 
until four. Got dinner ; then marched until ten o'clock at 
night. Marched twenty miles that day. Went on guard at 
night. Rain. 

February 16th. Left camp at nine o'clock and marched 
till noon. Halted for dinner at Lexington. Marched till 
dark. 

February 17th. Started again at seven o'clock. Marched 



100 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

through a good country. Forage plenty. Crossed the Saluda 
River, and camped five miles north of Columbia. 

Februarv 18th. Left camp at ten o'clock. Went out on 
the road, and halted and stayed till three o'clock. Marched 
three miles and camped. Forage plenty. Got flour, meal, 
bacon, and molasses. 

February 19ih. Sunday, and in camp. Chaplain preached. 
Left camp at dark. Marched until two o'clock in the morning. 
Crossed Broad River ; then marched eight miles and camped. 

February 20th. I^eft camp at eight o'clock. Marched 
five miles and went into camp. Drew rations of coffee and 
sugar. 

February 21st. Left camp at eleven o'clock. Most of the 
buildings burned. Country hilly, and very thickly settled. 
Weather good. 

February 22d. Left camp at nine o'clock this morning. 
Marched two miles, and halted at the Catawba River. Got 
dinner, and crossed the river. Very muddy. Teams could 
scarcely get along. Had to help push wagons up hill. Went 
as far as we could, and then halted in the road. Rained all 
night. 

February 25th. Cut and carried poles, and laid them in 
the road. Mud nearly knee deep. Helped wagons up the hill. 
Country very hilly. Got into camp about two o'clock p. m. 
Rained all day and night. 

February 26th. In camp. Chaplain preached, it being 
Sunday. On guard. 

February 27ih. In camp. Got some corn ground. Rations 
scarce. 

February 28th. In camp. Rained in the morning. Fight 
ing in the rear. 

March 1st. Started again on the march. \Vent about 
fourteen miles. Very hilly. Roads bad. 



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March 2d On the march. Went about fifteen miles. 
'Country very broken. Marched until night. On guard. 

March 3d. Again on the march. Most of the road very 
bad. Went ahead as pioneers. Worked hard, and very tired 
at night. Camped in the edge of the woods. A rebel came 
into our lines this morning. Raining. 

March 4th. Started again on the march. Halted and waited 
until the train passed. Rebels said to be in our rear, capturing 
•some of our men. Got into North Carolina at night. Saw a 
man, Mr. Junius W. Whiting, who had escaped from Wheeler's 
cavalry. • 

March 5di. Again on the march. Went about fifteen 
miles and camped, about two o'clock, near the Great Pedee 
River. Foragers came in with meat, meal, etc. 

March 6th. Started again and marched to the river, and 
waited all day and all night to cross. Mules harnessed all day 
and night. 

March 7th. Started again, and went down to the river and 
got breakfast. Crossed over about ten o'clock, and marched 
about eighteen miles. 

March 8th. Again on the march. Marched about nine- 
teen miles, it raining nearly all day. 

March 9th. Stayed in camp until noon ; then marched ten 
miles. Made some corduroy road. Rained. 

March 10th. Marched about ten miles. Kilpatrick's camp 
surprised this morning. Cannon heard on our left. Camped 
before night. 

March llth. Marched to within about two miles of Fay- 
etteville and camped. On guard. 

March 12th. In camp. Chaplam preached in the after- 
noon. 

March 13th. Marched, this morning, into the town of 
Fayetteville. Crossed the Cape Fear River on pontoons. The 



102 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

town of Fayetteville is quite a nice place, of five or six thousand 
inhabitants, most of the citizens remaining at home. Marched 
about a mile and a half and camped. 

March 14th. In camp. Went foraging. Got a few sweet- 
potatoes and a gourdful of soft soap. 

March 15th. Rained quite hard. Packed up in the rain, 
and moved a short distance. Marched in the night, some five 
or six miles, and camped. Bad roads, and raining. On guard 
at night. 

March 16th. Moved a short distance, and camped at a 
church. Cut up the benches for wood. Raining. Fighting in 
front. 

March 17th. Marched about seven miles. Bad roads. 
Got some corn meal to-day. Had corn-cakes for supper. 

March 18th. Marched about eight miles, and crossed 
Black River. Camped on an old rebel camp-ground. Heard 
cannon at night. 

March 19th. Marched some twelve miles, over corduroy 
roads, mostly. Fighting in front, at Bentonville. Our brigade 
lost heavily. 

March 20th. Marched six miles and camped. Some of 
our foragers captured, and three teamsters killed. Eight wagons 
captured out of ten. 

March 21st. Marched about five miles toward Kingston, 
when we marched back again, having been ordered to issue 
rations to the troops. We turned to the right. Very bad roads. 
Teams sticking in the mud. Raining. Halted in the woods 
and camped after night. 

March 22d. Started again at sunrise. Caught up with the 
division. Rebel army retreated toward Raleigh. Passed 
through the battle-ground. Marched twelve miles. Roads 
swampy and bad. 



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March 23d. Started again for Goldsboro, passing through 
General Terry's command. Crossed the Neuse River on 
pontoons. Several colored troops were there, belonging to the 
Twenty-fourth and Twenty fifth corps. Arrived at Goldsboro 
about five o'clock, the Twenty-third Corps on parade to receive 
General Sherman. The general rode along the lines, and was 
hailed with demonstrations of joy. 

The next day we received orders to march to Kingston for 
rations, and the morning of the 25th we started and rode in the 
wagons some twenty-five or thirty miles. We arrived at Kingston 
at about five o'clock p. m. 

March 26th. At Kingston, waiting for rations. We 
.remained at Kingston until the 28th, when the wagons were 
loaded and ordered to start at six o'clock, when we received a 
dispatch to move into breastworks and wait a while, as rebel 
cavalry were seen on the flank. We moved back and waited an 
hour or two, then started back to Goldsboro. Went about half 
way, and halted for the night. 

March 29th. Started again. Arrived at Goldsboro about 
twelve o'clock. The next day we drew some clothing, and on 
the 31st we moved to town, about two miles distant, to guard 
commissary stores. We were assigned quarters in a building — 
that is, three companies of the Seventy-fourth, namely. Compa- 
nies A, D, and C. For the first two nights I preferred sleeping 
out of doors; but the third night there were indications of rain, 
when I moved my quarters into the house, and Columbus 
McDonald and I occupied a bunk. 

We remained in town until the 9th of April, when we 
moved back to the regiment. During our stay in town we 
attended church, as there was quite a revival of religion in town 
at that time. On the 6th we got the news of the fall of Rich- 
mond, which caused much excitement," shooting cannon, and 
fireworks at night. 



104 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

On the 10th we started again on the march. Skirmishing 
in front. Marched eleven miles and camped. 

April 11th. Again on the march. Detailed again as 
train-guard. Marched about eight miles. 

April 12th. Pioneers to-day. Went in front of the train. 
Bad roads, and had to work hard. Heard the news of Lee's 
surrender. Marched about twelve miles, passing through the 
town of Smithfield, on the Neuse River. 

April 13th. Started again on the march. Passed through 
a little village on the railroad. Marched along the railroad. 
Cars came inside, to-day, with the governor of North Carolina. 
Marched about sixteen miles, to the capital of North Carolina. 
Raleigh is handsomely decorated with fine gardens, and the air 
is heavily laden with the perfume of sweet flowers. The ladies 
are quite handsome. A large majority of the inhabitants are 
loyal, so I have been told. Joe Johnson's army retreated at the 
approach of General Sherman's invincible army. Raining. On 
guard. 

April l-lth. Left Raleigh. Marched about fifteen miles, a 
western course, along the railroad, and then camped. 

April 15ih. Raining this morning. Went foraging. Had 
to wade a creek which was swollen out of its banks. Got wet. 
Came to Holly Springs in the evening, and stopped by the side 
of the road Rain. So muddy that the regiment did not 
get up. 

April IGth Tram and regiment came up about nine o'clock. 
Went a few miles and camped. 

April 18th. We received the news of the assassination of 
President Lincoln. The order was read to the regiment, which 
caused a sudden change of feeling, from that of joy to that of 
sorrow. We were both glad and sorrowful. Glad that we soon 
expected to return home, and sorrowful l)ecause our beloved 
President was no more. 



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105 




It will be remembered that the Seventy fourth was guarding 
train. Consequently we were not with the division all the time, 
but on the 20ih we started to the 
division, which was about six miles 
away. Upon arriving at the place we 
unloaded rations, and started to Ra 
leigh for more. We went back to 
where we left camp, and halted for 
the night. The order from General 
Sherman was read to us to-day in 
regard to the suspension of hostilities and looking to peace, 
when we gave three rousing cheers. The next day we went to 
■Raleigli and loaded the wagons. Remained at Raleigh until 
Monday. 

On Sunday I attended church five times during the day, 
and once at night. 

We started back again to the division,* and camped three 
miles from the division. 

The order came for consolidating the Seventy-fourth with 
the Sixty-ninth Ohio. Colonel Findley rode back to Raleigh to 
see General Sherman about it. Regiment very much depressed 
in spirits. Strong talk of stacking arms and refusing to be 
consolidated. They said they went into the field as the Seventy- 
fourth, fought as the Seventy- fourth, and they were going home 
as the Seventy-fourth. 

On the 25th we were ordered to report to the Second 
Brigade, First Division, General Buell (not Carlos Buell, but a 
general by that name, commanding the Second Brigade). The 
regiment was slow falling into line, supposing they were going 
to be consolidated We went to General Buell's head- quarters, 
when he ordered us into camp, not consolidated. Went into 
camp not far from head- quarters. Two companies were detailed 
by Captain Deton, of the commissary department. 



106 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

On the 2Gth of April we moved a short distance and 
camped in the woods, remaining there until the 28th, when we 
received orders to march northward and homeward — the most 
welcome order that we had ever heard. About ten o'clock in 
the morning we were ordered to the regimental head quarters, 
and the order read. The division commander General C. C. 
Walcutt, said, ''Boys, you have done it all. You may make as 
much noise as you please from this until you start home." 
There was no more sleep that night. The boys commenced 
shooting; the artillery, which had been parked, was at once in 
position, and the noise commenced, louder, if possible, than if 
we had been in a regular engagement. General Beard, who 
commanded the Second Division, was stationed several miles 
toward Raleigh, who, hearing the noise, suppo.sed that we had 
got into an engagement with Joe Johnson, and, it is said, double- 
quicked his men nearly five miles to support, or, rather, re-in- 
force us, before he found out what was the cause of the hubbub. 

Started next morning at six o'clock, midst cheering and 
great rejoicing. We had now set our faces toward home. Left 
camp, band playing, "The Girl I Left Behind Me," and 
"Yankee Doodle." Marched about twenty-two miles, and 
camped in the woods. 

April 29th. Started again, about seven o'clock, and went a 
few miles and halted about four hours; then started again, and 
went about four miles farther. Colonel Findley informed us 
that we were still the old Seventy-fourth ; and we gave three 
cheers. 

April 30th. At Morrisville Station. Chaplain preached. 
Started for Richmond at one o'clock. Marched about twenty 
miles, to Neuse River, and camped. 

May 1st. Started at five o'clock. Marched about twenty- 
five miles, going as far as Tar River, to dinner. Crossed Tar 



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River, and marched on through Oxford, and camped about a 
mile beyond. 

May 2d. Again on the march. Passed through a Httle 
town called Williamsburg, to the Roanoke River. Crossed the 
line into old Virginia, Mecklenburg County, about six o'clock 
p. M. Camped near the river. Went boat-riding on the 
Roanoke. The next day we crossed the river on pontoons, and 
passed through Boydton. Marched seventeen miles. 

May 4th. The Seventy fourth again on the march. Hard 
marching. Marched thirty-one miles to- day. 

May 5th. Started again. Raining some. Crossed Notaway 
Creek at. the falls. Passed Notaway Court house. Very tired 
• at night. Marched thirty miles. 

May 6th. Started about six o'clock. Crossed the Appo- 
mattox River. Marched on to within nine miles of Richmond. 
Very warm. Marched twenty-four miles. 

May 7th. Started at daylight for Richmond. Marched to 
James River, and halted on the bank opposite Belle Isle, in full 
view of the city. Saw where the Union prisoners were kept, 
and also the dead line, a ditch where, if a prisoner stepped 
beyond, he was shot. Many a poor fellow stepped over the 
line purposely, choosing rather to be shot than to be starved to 
death. We remained at that place till about two o'clock, when 
we received orders to march five miles and go into camp. We 
marched out on the Danville Railroad, and camped in the 
woods. We remained in camp, resting, cleaning up arms, etc., 
until the 11th of May. 

When we started again, as we passed through Manchester 
we had a reception by the troops of the Twenty-fourth Corps. 
We crossed the James River on pontoons, passing by Castle 
Thunder and Libby Prison, and marched through several streets. 
Here the negroes seemed to be our only friends. They had 
water at every corner along the streets, and waited on the boys. 



108 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

supplying them with water; and many a "God bless you, 
massa," was uttered by them. We marched out toward Alex- 
andria, crossed the Chickahominy River, and toward night, 
though a thunder-storm was rising, still we marched on, the 
clouds threatening to overtake us, until at last, just at dusk, we 
filed out to the right, and were ordered to halt and stack arms. 
We had no sooner obeyed the order when it became very dark, 
and the rain came down in torrents. There we were in the 
darkness, without tent or shelter, having marched nearly all day, 
tired and hungry. We procured our gum blankets and sat down 
on our knapsacks. As soon as the rain ceased coming down so 
hard, I procured a hatchet, and, groping my way along in the 
darkness, seeing a little when there was a flash of lightning, 
found some brushes, cut some poles, and went back and tried to 
erect a tent ; but in the darkness it was slow work. We man- 
aged, however, to get our tent up, and had spread our blankets 
on the wet ground and just laid down when there came a gust 
of wind, upsetting our tent and exposing us and our blankets to 
the storm and rain; for it had not ceased raining. We arose 
and adjusted our tent as best we could, and, going to the stack 
of arms, procured guns, and, with the bayonets, staked our tent 
down. 

The next morning we moved a short distance and halted 
beside the road, our blankets wet and heavy. When we halted, 
the sun came out warm and pleasant, and we soon had our 
blankets hung out to dry. We did not start again until about 
four o'clock, by which time our blankets were dry as well as the 
roads, and everything appeared more pleasant and comfortable. 
Marched some nine miles, passing Hanover Court house. Went 
as far as Pamunky River. The river was high, and we had to 
wait until bridges were made and the troops ahead had crossed 
over. We had to halt several times before we reached the 
^river. Night coming on, we spread our blankets and laid down 



THE SEVENTY- FOURTH. I09> 

three times that night. We finally crossed the river and camped 
at four o'clock next morning. 

May 13th. Started again on the march, crossing the river 
and taking a westerly course, toward the Blue Ridge Mountains. 
Marched about twenty miles. 

May 14th. Again on the march. Went about twenty 
miles. 

May 15th. Started again. In sight of mountains. Marched 
about twenty miles. 

May 16th. Started again. Turned northward, crossing 
the Rapidan at Raccoon Ford. Passed the battle-ground of 
Cedar Bluff 

May 17th. Crossed the Rappahannock River at Kelly's- 
Ford. Camped at Cedar Creek and drew rations. 

May 18th. Started again at five o'clock. Very warm. 
Marched over part of Bull Run battle ground. Saw the fortifi- 
cations, and the ground strewn with old knapsacks, haversacks,, 
and other relics of a battle-field. Halted at Bull Run. Crossed 
it and got dinner. Went into the creek, swimming. Marched 
about three miles farther, making eighteen miles on that day. 
Rained at night. 

May 19th. Started at five o'clock. Passed Fairfax Court- 
house. Arrived in sight of Alexandria and Washington City, 
and camped about five miles from the capital. 

May 20th. In camp. Raining. Several of the boys 
came to the regiment to day, among whom were George 
Kempher, L. Wright, S. Mullen, Clinton Randolph, C. Hols- 
man, B. Crossy, John Norwood, and S. Kildow, of Company 
C. While encamped at this place the grand review came off — 
the review of the Army of the Potomac on the 22d, and the 
next day the review of the Army of the West, General Sher- 
man's. It was a grand affair. Never before was there anything 
like it. and, 1 presume, never will be again. Among the many 



110 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

mottoes and devices were such as these: Liberty and Freedom; 
Patriots, Welcome Home; Western Heroes; Shiloh; Vicksburg ; 
Atlanta ; Stone River ; Savannah ; Raleigh ; Mission Ridge ; 
Lookout Mountain, etc. We marched up Maryland Avenue, 
around the Capitol, down Pennsylvania Avenue to the treasury 
building and president's house, where we were reviewed by 
Generals U. S. Grant. Sherman, and Mead, President Johnson, 
Secretary Stanton, and others. We then marched out by the 
Aqueduct bridge, and back to camp. 

On the 26th we broke up camp and moved across the river 
on the long bridge, marched through the city, and went into 
camp about a mile west of the city, near the Baltimore pike. 
While marching through the city part of the regiment repre- 
sented Sherman's bummers and foragers, some on mules, with 
tin pans, kettles, corn-fodder, chickens, bacon, tobacco, etc., 
etc., just as they used to be seen going through Georgia and the 
Carolinas. The day was rainy and disagreeable, but we had 
become accustomed to that. 

We remained in camp until the 9th of June, nothing of 
importance transpiring during the time. We did some guard 
duty. The rest of the time was spent in resting in camp or 
visiting the city and the most public places, such as the Capitol 
buildings and grounds, the Patent Office, Smithsonian Insti- 
tute, etc. 

On the 9th we took the cars for Parkersburg, West Virginia, 
by way of Harpers Ferry. 

We arrived at Parkersburg on the 11th, without accident, 
notwithstanding the greater part of the regiment rode on top of 
the cars, day and night, through several tunnels. While at 
Cumberland City the regiment was furnished with coffee. 

On the 12th we embarked on board the steamer Elenora, 
and arrived at Louisville on the 14th, camping about four 
miles from the city. 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. Ill 

On the Fourth'^of July General Sherman made us a farewell 
speech. We formed line in the morning, and marched out into a 
field about a mile from camp. The field was grown up in weeds 
about as high as a man's head. It was an exceedingly hot day. 
We remained in line about two hours, waiting for the general ; 
but he did not come. We returned to camp, and in the after- 
noon the general made his speech, on horseback, in the camp, 
we being drawn up in line to receive him. 

On the 11th we broke up camp and marched to Louisville, 
and went on board the steamer General Buell. 

We arrived at Cincinnati on the 12th, and took the cars for 
Camp Dennison. 

On the 14th the regiment took the cars for Xenia, at which 
place it had a reception. Here we remained until the 17th, 
when we again went to Camp Dennison, and on the 18th of 
July, 1865, we were paid off, received our discharge papers, and 
became citizens once more, having served the country nearly 
four years. The same day we took the cars for Xenia, and the 
Seventy-fourth was no more. 

RECAPITULATION. 

The aggregate loss of the Seventy-fourth in the Atlanta 
campaign, ending with the battle of Jonesboro, was eighteen 
killed and eighty-eight wounded. At that time several officers 
resigned and were mustered out, namely, Colonel Given, 
Captains McMillan, Armstrong, and Baldwin, and Lieutenants 
Adams and Baldwin. 

The Seventy fourth was the last to leave Kingston, Georgia, 
in the new campaign through that state, severing the link that 
connected it with the North on the 12th of November, 1864 
We arrived at ^avannah, December 21st, and left that place for 
the South Carolina campaign January 25, 1865. Owing to the 



112 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

bad condition of the roads, which had to be corduroyed before 
they could be passed, the corps made slow progress. 

The Seventy-fourth was, about this time, detailed as train- 
guard — a post of danger and responsibility, as the enemy were 
watching eagerly for a chance to capture the supply-train. The 
Seventy-fourth was with the supply-train through the Carolinas, 
and on May 7th arrived at Richmond, having averaged thirty- 
two miles a day, being the third regiment to arrive at the river, 
where we stacked arms with but one man missing from the 
ranks. 

On the arrival of all the troops, on the 11th of May, the 
march to Washington began. 

The muster-out rolls of the Seventy-fourth were made out 
bearing date July 10, 1S65, and signed by the mustering officer 
of the First Division ; and on the 11th of July the regiment, 
having received the farewell addresses and thanks of their corps, 
division, and brigade commanders, started for Camp Dennison, 
Ohio. 

The reception at Xenia, on the 16th of July, will not soon 
be forgotten. An immense crowd was gathered in the city. 
Congratulatory addresses were delivered, and tables, loaded with 
all the choicest delicacies, were spread by the fair daughters of 
Xenia. Bouquets and wreaths of flowers were showered through 
the ranks, and everything was done that could in any way 
express the unbounded joy and gratitude of fathers, mothers, 
wives, sisters, and friends. 

On the 17th of July the regiment returned to Camp Denni- 
son, and on the 18th received pay and final discharge papers. 

After starting on the Atlanta campaign the regiment was 
under an almost continuous fire of rebel musketry and artillery 
for over one hundred days. At Buzzard's Roost we were 
especially engaged m the attemj)! to storm that stronghold, at 
wl-iich ])lace, on the 9th of May, we lost sixteeif men killed and 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. _ 113 

wounded, and at Resaca, May 15th, nine men were killed and 
wounded. In the engagement of the 27th of May, the conduct 
of the Seventy-fourth and other regiments of the Third Brigade 
ehcited the highest encomiums from the division commander. 

COLONEL MOODY. 

The following anecdote of the Seventy-fourth and Colonel 
Moody has been in print before, but I will give it to my readers . 

Colonel Granville Moody, commanding the Seventy-fourth 
Ohio Volunteers, is a famous Methodist preacher. He relin- 
quished the altar for the sword. Malicious people insinuated 
that the gospel had lost the services of a good advocate, and 
that the army was not promoted by its accession from the pulpit. 
But the colonel proved that he was a tremendous fighter as well 
as a good preacher. He is fifty or more, perhaps, but well 
preserved, with magnificent front, and six feet two or three 
inches of stature. He has a fine, genial face, fiery dark eyes, 
and vocal range that would have excited the envy of roaring 
Ralph Stackpole. He carried into battle a spirit of enthusiasm 
which inflamed his boys to the highest pitch of daring, and won 
for him the admiration of thousands. 

Lieutenant Colonel Von Schroeder, inspector general on the 
staff of GenercJ Thomas, than whom a braver or better soldier 
never resisted the storm of battle, had not been on friendly terms 
with Moody for some months, but admiring his splendid gal- 
lantry, he approached him in the heat of desperate conflict, 
extended his hand, expressed his earnest approbation of the 
colonel's heroism, and begged that peace ever after might exist 
between them. A little later Moody's "boys"' — as he pater- 
nally called them — were obliged to withstand a terrific fire, 
without enjoying an opportunity to return it. Moody galloped 
to General Negley and protested, "This fire, general, is per- 

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114 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

fectly murderous ; it will kill all my boys.'* But there was no 
help for it. His martial flock, imposing upon his benevolent 
nature, sometimes indulged a little sly humor at his expense. 
In the midst of a battle an Irishman in the regiment shouted, 
*' His riverence, the colonel, has been fightin' Satan all his life. 
I reckon he thinks hell's broke loose now." 

Not long after the battle General Negley merrily accused 
him of having used heterodox expletives in the ardor of engage- 
ment. *' Is it a fact, colonel," inquired the general, "that you 
told the boys to give 'em hell?" 

"Now," replied the colonel, reproachfully, "there's some 
more of the boys' mischief. I told the boys to give the rebels 
Hail Columbia, and they wickedly perverted my language.*' 

This was true. The colonel said, "Now, boys, say your 
prayers, and give them Hail' — he had just got the word hail 
out, when the rebels let loose a volley at us, and drowned the 
Columbia. 

But there was no doubt that one of his injunctions to his 
regiment sounded marveloubly like a fervent ejaculation swelling 
up from the depths of the "amen chorus" in an old-fashioned 
Methodist church. This fact must be imagined that the anec- 
dote may be appreciated. The colonel's mind was saturated 
with piety and pugnacity. He praised God and pitched into 
the rebels alternately. He had been struck b]^' bullets four times 
already. He had given the rebels Hail Columbia once, and 
they reeled back to cover. Now they are swarming back to 
renew the contest. Moody's regiment were lying on their 
bodies, waiting for them to come up. He had a moment to 
spare, and he thought he would exhort them. The rebels were 
advancing sharjjly, and probably cut him short; but as they 
approached he said, quietly, "Now, boys, fight for your coun- 
try and your God." "And," said one of his boys, "we all 
thought he was going to say, * .^men ! ' but at that instant the 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 115 

rebels let fly, and the old hero roared with the voice of a Stentor, 
* Aim low ! ' " Weeks after, when the colonel passed through 
the camp, the mischievous boys would shout behind him, " Fight 
for your country and your God — Aim low ! " 

INCIDENTS. 

Mr. James A. Lynch, of Company C, related to me the 
following incidents : 

'' When the Seventy- fourth was on picket near Nashville, in 
1862, while at my post, a proud Johnnie drove up in a buggy. 
I halted him, and demanded his pass. He remarked that he 
lived in sight, and that he had shown it a few days ago, and was 
about to drive on, when I drew my gun up close to his bread- 
basket. He then succumbed to a Yankee mudsill, and ever 
after that, when I saw him coming, I would exchange posts 
with the boys, so as to demand his pass. I understood he had 
been cashier of a bank at Nashville. 

"When near Franklin," continues Mr. Lynch, "I went 
into a sweet- potato patch, and got a good supply of potatoes, when 
the old lady came out and begged me to give them up. The 
sack was on my shoulder, and I told her not to be troubled ; 
that I would see the colonel, and have him issue an order to the 
effect that the boys should not molest her sweet-potato patch. 
I returned to camp, untied my sack, and poured out my sweet- 
potatoes. When young Clark asked me where I got them, I 
directed him to the place, and told him that the old lady was 
clever, and invited the Seventy- fourth boys to come and get 
potatoes, Clark took the sack, and was gone a short time, but 
returned. with only a few potatoes, and evidendy disappointed. 
The old lady told him a man had promised her that he would 
see the colonel, and have him prohibit the boys getting any more 
potatoes. At the same place,'' says Lynch, "a. Mr. Irvine took 



116 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

a notion to forage a little, but as General Buell had issued an 
order prohibiting foraging, we thought we would forage on our 
own hook. Accordingly we started and went a long way from 
camp, taking only our revolvers with us. Pretty soon we came 
across a nice lot of hogs, near the river. They were very wild, 
but we fired at one, slightly wounding it. It took to the water, 
and Irvine on one side and I on the other, began pelting it with 
rocks, etc., r-hen it soon submitted to have its hide taken off. 
We saw at a distance some men, whom we supposed to be rebels, 
so we started back to camp on the double quick." 

Mr. Lynch was detailed into the pioneer corps. He says : 
'' At one time, when near Kenesaw Mountain, the rebels shelled 
us. My comrade and I laid a rail down on a rock to build a 
fire and get dinner, but as we stood on one side a cannon-ball 
struck the rail and knocked it into splinters. We then gathered 
up the pieces, made our coffee, and laughed at the Johnnies for 
making us fire-wood. 

''In the same corps," says Mr. Lynch, "our squad cap- 
tured a negro man, to cook for them. He was dissatisfied, and 
wanted to leave. The boys wanted to have some fun, so they 
formed a ring around the darkey, and called to me to come and 
swear him in. I ordered him to take off his hat. He stood up 
like a man, and I swore him in as follows : ' You do positively 
swear in the presence of these Yankees, the searchers of all 
meat-houses, that you will faithfully perform your duty, as you 
shall answer to Abraham Lincoln?' He replied, 'Yes, sah.' 
He shortly after left in the night. 

" As I was returning to my regiment — the Seventy-fourth," 
— Mr. Lynch says again, " I was placed on guard-duty, to guard 
a train loaded with ammunition, going to Chattanooga, from 
Stevenson, Alabama. Our force consisted of one hundred and 
fourteen men. Twelve hundred rebels attacked us at the foot 
of a mountain. Samuel Smith, of Company H, and I pledged 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 117 

ourselves to stand by each other, and take care of the other 
should either be wounded. We had a hard fight, and the enemy 
whipped us. They broke Smith's arm, but I stood by him, and 
we waded the river and made our escape. I took him back to 
the hospital at Stevenson, and there left him." 

THE LUCKY REB. 

While cut off from rations at Nashville, it was our rule to 
go out into the country to forage, and invariably we had with us 
the advance-guard, or cavalry. They generally got the best 
forage, and if any sport was on hand they fared the best. One 
day I borrowed the quartermaster's horse, and armed with a 
-good carbine, concluded to accompany the cavalry squad, which 
numbered about twenty or thirty men. I fell in with a young 
man who belonged to the Second Kentucky Cavalry. We took 
our course down the river. About sixteen miles from the city 
we discovered a squad of rebs, and accordingly ''went for 
them." " Kaint,uck" and I singled out a reb mounted on a fine 
sorrel mare, and began a vigorous race, both of us firing, but to 
no effect. Finally, by taking short cuts, we came up to him, 
while nearing a brook. He suddenly dismounted and jumped 
into the water, and sat down, so that his head was above the 
water. As we rode up he begged us not to shoot, and we 
ordered him out. He came out and surrendered his horse and 
shot-gun, and said he had just enlisted in his company only the 
day before. " Kaintuck " remarked, "You are a darned sight 
luckier than I was — to enlist one day in the service and get out 
the next." 

THE MAN WHOSE WIFE WOULD BE UNEASY. 

During the time the Seventy-fourth regiment was at Nash- 
ville, and when the Louisville & Nashville Railroad was cut, we 



118 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

not unfrequently were called out in line of battle to meet Mor- 
gan, or Forrest, or some other band of guerrillas. One evening 
while lying in line on College Hill, awaiting what we then 
thought an attack, a man on a small white pony was seen outside 
the lines riding leisurely around, as though in search of some- 
thing. Colonel Moody sent out for him, and on being interro- 
gated as to his business, he said he was looking for his hogs. 
The colonel told him he must stay with us that night, at which 
he became very restive, and said he lived only a few miles 
away, had a nice home, and his wife would be uneasy if he did 
not return that night. The colonel said to him, ''There are lots 
of fellows here who have nice homes, and the flowers bloom just 
as fresh in their yard as in yours, and their wives will be uneasy, 
too, because they are not there ; so tie up and try soldiering one 
night. Here is a blanket to lie on." He refused to tie up, but 
sat down on the ground, holding his pony's bridle-rein in his 
hand until morning. I don't think he moved from his first 
position during the night. In the morning the colonel told him 
he could go home. I judge he had a poor opinion of soldier-life. 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH, 



CAMPAIGN SONG, 



119 



BY IRAS. OWENS, 

COMPANY C, SEVENTY-FOURTH KEGIMENT, O. V. V. I. 



TUNE— " Happy Land OF Canaan." 

On the third day of May we started on our way, 

The boys then were not complainin' 
That they then had to go to meet the rebel foe ; 

So we started for the happy land of Canaan. 

CHORUS. 

Ho, boys, ho, we'll for the rebels go, 
And whip them, too, we are aimin' ; 
And we'll never give them rest. 
But we'll drive them from their nest ; 
For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

At Buzzard's Roost they made a stand ; 

But the Yankees were on hand ; 
And to whip the rebels they were" aimin' ; 

But we went around Snake Gap to catch them in a trap ; 
For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

Ckortis—Ho, boys, ho, etc. 

At Resaca we pressed so tight that we had another fight, 

For we were so fast on them gainin' ; 
Till at last they left the place, then we had another race ; 

For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

Chorus — Ho, boys, ho, etc. 

At Dallas they made a stop, to give us another pop — 

The rebels that still were remainin' ; 
But the Yankees were so tough that the Johnnies got enough ; 

For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

Chorus — Ho, boys, ho, etc. 



120 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

The Yankees now in force, then took another course, 

Although it was muddy and a rainin' ; 
But we didn't stop for rain, but went for them again ; 

For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

Chorus — Ho, boys, ho, etc. 

At Kenesaw we had to halt, but that was Johnny's fault ; 

For every nerve we were strainin' ; 
Eut we'll whip the rebs so bad, 'twill make them very sad ; 

For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

Chorus — Ho, boys, ho, etc. 

The twenty-second day of June, late in the afternoon, 

The rebels' shells were a rainin' ; 
But they couldn't shell us out, and we gave them turn about ; 

For we'i-e bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

Chorus — Ho, boys, ho, etc. 

Then on the second of July the rebels had to fly, 

For Kenesaw mound we were gainin' ; 
It was getting rather hot, so they had to leave the spot ; 

For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan, 

CJiortis — Ho, boys, ho, etc. 

The next place of renown was Marietta town. 

In it were people yet remainin' ; 
But Sherman traveled on, for the rebels they were gone; 

For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

Chortis — Ho, boys, ho, etc. 

At Chattahoochee's banks he thought to stop the Yanks — 
General Johnson, with his army, to sustain him, 

For his works were very strong, but he couldn't hold them long ; 
For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

Chorus — Ho, boys, ho, etc. 



THE SEVENTY- FOURTH. 121 

'And now we will determine, with our leader, General Sherman, 

And the balance of the army to sustain him. 
To crush the rebel band, and to redeem the land ; 
For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

Chorus — Ho, boys, ho, etc. 

Now the rebels thought they would, by getting General Hood, 
Whip the Yankees that were then on them gainin' ; 

So they charged with might and main, but we drove them back again ; 
For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

Chorus — Ho, boys, ho, etc. 

Now, to get the rebs to fight, we marched unto the right, 

And to draw the rebels out w^e were aimin' ; 
But when Hood found out the trick, he left Atlanta quick, 

For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

Chorus — Ho, boys, ho, etc. 

The railroad track we tore a dozen miles or more. 

To cut off the reb's supplies we were aimin' ; 
For Sherman is the man to flank the rebel clan, 

For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

Chorus — Ho, boys, ho, etc. 

Atlanta now is ours, and by all the southern powers. 

With Jeff Davis and his minions to sustain him; 
Our flag shall proudly wave o'er many a traitor's grave; 

For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

Chorus — Ho, boys, ho, etc. 

At last when we are through, and have whipped the rebel crew, 

Although it is very hard campaignin' ; 
We will not regret the past, but all go home at last ; 

For we're bound for the happy land of Canaan. 

Chorus — Ho, boys, ho, etc. 



122 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

THE VOLUNTEERS. 



BY IRA S. OWENS. 



We left our homes and friends so dear, 

To fight for freedom's cause ; 
Yes, for our country's sake we're here. 

And to protect its laws. 

The Union we will still preserve, 

Although we have to fight ; 
From duty we will never swerve, 

But stand up for the right. 

In days of yore our fathers fought, 

And bled, and died, that we 
Might share the glories so dearly bought,, 

And that we might be free. 

Those patriot sires, that noble band, 

We'll not forget them, no ; 
They fought and saved our native land,. 

And conquered many a foe. 

Then by our country's flag we'll stand. 

The Union we will save ;. 
O'er North and South, o'er all the land 

Our flag shall proudly wave. 

Since we obeyed our country's call, 

And flew to its relief. 
It's caused the tears of friends to fall, 

And filled their hearts with grief. 

God speed the time when war shall cease, 

When rebels shall succumb ; 
When we shall once again have peace, 

And traitors hear their doom. 

For then shall war be heard no more ;. 

Then friends shall meet again ; 
And fighting then shall all be o'er. 

And peace triumphant reign. 



THE SEVENTY FOURTH. 123- 



ON THE DEATH OF R. S. DILWORTH, 



The soldier sleeps his last long sleep,. 
His friends in anguish o'er him weep ; 
For his country's flag his life he gave, 
He is sleeping now in an honored grave- 
No more at the bugle's call he'll come, 
Or march to the music of the drum ; 
His voice is hushed, his spirit fled. 
Ah ! yes, he's numbered with the dead. 

Rest, soldier, rest; thy warfare's o'er, 
No more you'll hear the cannon's roar y 
No night alarms disturb your breast, 
. Then sweetly slumber, sweetly rest. 

Ah ! how sad the thought to those 
Fond friends at home; ah! yes, who knows 
The depths of sorrow hearts must feel; 
But God alone the wound can heal. 

The noble hero patriot fell ; 
His work is done, he did it well ; 
His sword is sheathed ; let it remain, 
He ne'er shall take it up again. 

• Although we feel his loss is great, 
Heaven has thus decreed his fate ; 
His friends and comrades speak his fame. 
Forever honored be his name. 

There is one fond heart now left to mourn^ 
From whose embrace so lately torn. 
On whom will fall the hardest blow, 
Will be the deepest grief, we know. 



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124 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

The loving wife so soon must part 
With the idol of her loving heart ; 
But trust in God, grace v^^ill be given, 
And meet your dearest one in heaven. 

Friends will drop affection's tears, 
The lapse of months or lapse of years 
Shall not banish from the mind 
Thy many acts of love so kind. 

When war is o'er and victory won, 
We'll think of thee, the absent one — 
In years to come when once again 
:Sweet peace shall universal reign. 

Lieutenant Dilworth's work is done, 
He rests in peace, his race is run ; 
Whilst many hearts with grief o'erflow, 
Naught can disturb his sweet repose. 

Farewell, soldier, noble friend, 
And when this toilsome life shall end, 
When all earth's sorrows shall be past. 
We hope to meet in heaven at last. 



THE FOUR DAYS" SCOUT. 



I will now write a song, and I think I am right, • 

About the trip that we took with Hambright; 
Of the farms that we passed, and the nice little villas, 
The time we went hunting the rebel guerillas. 

The time that we started was the month of October, 
The twenty-fourth day, we being all sober; 
We traveled eight miles, and then we encamped, 
And for that day this wasjxs far as we tramped. 



THE SEVENTY FOURTH. 125 

We marched the next day as far as Dirt Town, 
Where, off in the woods, some saddles were found. 
Sometime in the day, when we came to a halt. 
We saw an old man who was loaded with salt. 

He had five or six barrels in his wagon he had bought, 
All the way from Blue Mountain his salt he had brought; 
He said that the rebels to Blue Mountain had gone, 
So onward we went and left him alone. 

That night we encamped right close to a mill, 
(If the mill isn't gone I guess it's there still ); 
The way that we went, and the road that we took, 
We followed our leader, whose name was Cap, Crook. 

Of potatoes and molasses we had plenty to eat, 
Besides, we had pork, the best of fresh meat ; 
So we had plenty of forage, of the very best kind, 
Though sometimes the brigade would leave us behind. 

Now Crook, as a leader, we very well knew 

Was gallant and brave, and so was he true ; 

And should we have chanced to have heard a big noise. 

Captain Crook is the man who would have staid with his boys. 

In battle the captain has often been tried, 

No one his courage has ever denied ; 

And if you should happen on the captain to call. 

You will find he is kind and courteous to all. 

Since the captain is going to leave his command. 
And return once again to his own native land. 
To lay down his sword, and cease fighting his foes. 
May joy go with him wherever he goes. 

The next day we marched, and at night there was rain, 
And the next day we marched to our division again ; 
Four days and three nights we were out on the scout, 
And I guess no one knew what we were about. 



Twelfth Regiment, 0. V. I. 



Under the call for seventy-five thousand three months' 
troops, the Twelfth Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Jack- 
son, Ohio, May 3, 1861. It moved to Camp Dennison May 
6th, there re-enlisted, and was re organized and mustered into 
the service for three years on the 28th of June, 1861. The 
Twelfth left Camp Dennison for tlie Kanawha Valley, July 6th, 
arrived at Point Pleasant on the 9th, and on the 14th reached 
Pocotaligo River. 

On the 17th of July the regiment fought the battle of Scary 
Creek, the enemy being strongly fortified beyond a ravine. The 
regiment fought three hours, and after exhausting its ammuni- 
tion, fell back in good order to its camp at the mouth of the 
Pocataligo, with a loss of five killed, thirty wounded, and four 
missing. The regiment entered Charleston, West Virginia, on 
the 25th, and reached Gauley Bridge on the 29th, where it cap- 
tured a large quantity of arms and ammunition. Eight compa- 
nies marched down the Kanawha to Camp Piatt, August 13th, 
and from there moved to Clarksburg, West Virginia, and were 
there assigned to General Benham's brigade. 

Marching south through Weston, Sutton, and Summerfield, 
they arrived at Carnifex Ferry, vSeptember 10th, and engaged in 
the battle of that place, losing two killed and ten wounded. It 
was here that the brave Colonel John W. Lowe fell. Two days 
after this they were eng^iged in a slight skirmish on the Gauley 
with guerillas, then marched to Camp Lookout, and trom there, 
on October 10th, moved to Hawk's Nest, on New River. 



THE TWELFTH. 127 

In the meantime the two companies left at Gauley Bridge 
surprised and routed two hundred rebel cavalry under Jenkins, 
on the 25th of August. They were engaged in several skir- 
mishes and reconnoissances, and finally joined the other eight 
companies at Hawk's Nest, on the 16th of October. 

On the 1st of November the Twelfth marched to the mouth 
of Loop Creek, and attempted to flank Floyd, who was threaten- 
ing Gauley. It soon after engaged in the pursuit of Floyd's 
forces, and having followed him until near Raleigh C. H., gave 
up the chase and returned to Loop Creek. The regiment was 
transferred to General Cox's brigade, December 10th, and 
moved to Charleston, and went into winter quarters. 

On the 3d of May, 1862, the regiment left Charleston and 
joined Scammon's brigade at the mouth of East River. It skir- 
mished at the narrows of New River, fell back to Princeton, 
then to Blue Stone River, then to the Summit of Flat Top 
Mountain, and fortified. From the 20th of May until the 14th 
of August, the regiment scouted the country m every direction, 
made some heavy marches in the mountains, and captured many 
bushwhackers. It was ordered to the Army of the Potomac 
August 15th, and arrived at Alexandria on the 21:th. 

The Twelfth regiment met the enemy at Bull Run bridge, 
August 26th, was severely engaged for six hours against a greatly 
superior force, and was compelled to fall back to Fairfax Station, 
with a loss of nine killed, sixty-eight wounded — six mortally — 
and twelve missing. The regiment returned to Alexandria, 
rejoined Cox's brigade, and marched to Upton Hill. On the 7th 
of September it advanced into Maryland, and after a sharp skir- 
mish at Monocacy Bridge, on the 12th, entered Frederick City. 
On the 14:th of September it engaged in the battle of South 
Mountain, participating in three bayonet charges and capturing 
three battle-flags, a large number of small arms, and over two 
hundred prisoners, and sustaining a loss of sixteen killed, ninety- 



128 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

one wounded, and eight missing. On the 17th the regiment 
was engaged at Antietam, and lost six killed and twenty-nine 
wounded. After the battle it marched for West Virginia via 
Hagerstown and Hancock, Maryland ; but on arriving at Han- 
cock it moved into Pennsylvania to operate against Stewart's 
cavalry. Stewart having retreated, the Twelfth returned to 
Hancock, and arrived at Clarksburg, West Virginia, October 
16th. The regiment marched from Clarksburg October 25th, in 
Crook's division, through Weston, Sutton, and Summer ville, 
endeavoring to gain the rear of the rebel fojrces in the Kanawha 
Valley, and arrived at Gauley Bridge November 14th, the rebels 
having retreated before the division arrived. 

On the 4th of December the regiment marched to Fayette 
C. H., West Virginia, and went into winter quarters. Here it 
was assigned to the second brigade, third division, and eighth 
army corps. The brigade, under Colonel White, repulsed the 
enemy's attack on Fayette C. H., May 9th, 1863, the regiment 
losing two killed, nine wounded, and eight missing. It pursued 
the retreating rebels to Raleigh C. H., and then returned to 
Fayette. C. H. On July 13th the Twelfth marched against the 
enemy at Piney Creek, but the rebels retreated, and the regi- 
ment returned to Fayette C. H. • 

The brigade was ordered to Ohio July 17th, to assist in 
capturing John Morgan, and after proceeding up the Ohio River 
as far as Blennerhassett's Island, and guarding fords for several 
days, it returned to Fayette C. H. During the months of 
August and September the regiment was employed in construct- 
ing fortifications. On the 4th of November it marched against 
Lewisburg, but the enemy fled, and the regiment again returned 
to Fayette C. H. On the 9lh of December it made another 
move on Lewisburg, as a diversion for General Averill. Bush- 
whackers were very troublesome on this march, and the regiment 
lost two killed, two slightly, and two mortally wounded, and two 



'J'HE TWELFTH. 129 

missing. The Twelfth went into quarters at Fayette C. H., and 
was engaged in holding outposts and in watching the enemy. 

On the 3d of May, 1864, the regiment left P\iyette C H., 
marched to Cloyd's Mountain, and there engaged the enemy on 
the 9th. The fight lasted over an hour, and the regiment lost 
eleven killed and sixty-eight wounded. In addition to these 
Surgeon Graham and nineteen men, left on the field in charge 
of the wounded, fell into the enemy's hands. The regiment 
pursued the fleeing rebels to New River Bridge, where a heavy 
artillery fight ensued, in which the enemy was driven back. 
The regiment crossed New River at Pepper's Ferry, and de- 
stroyed a number of bridges and a large amount of property 
belonging to the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. 

The Twelfth Regiment marched northward, and on the 19th 
reached Blue Sulphur Springs, where it remained until the 31st, 
when it moved on Staunton. Arriving at Staunton June 8th, it 
joined the forces under Hunter, marched southward, flanked 
Lexington, and on the ll^th assisted in destroying large quanti- 
ties of ammunition, and in burnmg the Virginia Military Insti- 
tute. On the l()th it destroyed the railroad between Liberty and 
Lynchburg, and burned several large bridges. The next day it 
marched on Lynchburg, and met the enemy at Quaker Church, 
three miles from the city. The Twelfth and Ninety- first Ohio 
regiments charged the enemy in fine style, and drove them back 
in disorder. The Twelfth captured a number of prisoners, and 
lost eight killed, and eleven wounded. The next day the regi- 
ment was engaged before the enemy's works, but withdrew after 
dark, and on the 19th marched to Liberty. It moved along the 
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad to Salem, and horn there pro- 
ceeded northward, via Catawba Valley, New Castle, Sweet 
Springs, White Sulphur, Lewisburg, and Gauley, to Camp Piatt, 
on the Kanawha, where it arrived June 29th. On this march 
both men and horses suffered considerably from hunger and thirst. 



130 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

The Twelfth regiment was finally ordered to Columbus, 
Ohio, July 2d, and mustered out of the service at that city on 
the 11th of July, 1864. During its term of service the regiment 
moved, on foot, by rail and water, a distance of four thousand 
and forty-nine miles, and sustained a loss in killed, and wounded, 
and missing, of four hundred and fifty-five men. 



TWELFTH 0. ¥. I. REUNION. 

From Xenia Tochlight, October jo, iSSj. 

The members of the Twelfth O. V. I., from Cedarville, 
were escortt^d from the depot early this morning to the St. 
George Hotel. The early music aroused the citizens from their 
short naps after the election returns, and everybody imagined 
the successful candidate had been announced, but a moment's 
thought rectified the mistake, for this is the day of the Twelfth 
O. V. I. reunion. 

At about ten o'clock the band went to the depot to meet a 
delegation which, in company with all the members of the regi- 
ment was escorted to the Opera House. The stage to day is 
very elaborately and tastefully decorated by our city florist — 
Lambert. In the decorations the battle flags of the regiment 
hold conspicuous places. 

ADDRESS OF WELCOME, BY THOMaS E. SCROGGY, ESQ. 

I have been introduced as Comrade Scroggy. It was not 
my privilege to have been a member of your regiment, excepting 
a short time in the beginning of the war, when I served as a 
member of Company B, on the bloody field of Camp Jackson, 



THE TWELFTH. I3l 

although I contributed liberally of my relatives — a brother and 
brother-in-law, who were members of Company D, and whom 
many of you remember. 

Soldiers of the Twelfth Ohio Regi?nent : — On behalf of the 
resident members of your regiment, and the citizens of Xenia, I 
have the honor and pleasure of extending to you, each and all, a 
most cordial welcome. Next to my own — the Thirty-ninth 
Ohio — there was no regiment to which I have been more 
warmly attached than to the Twelfth ; and I caii assure you that 
the people of Xenia cherish with fond remembrance your mag- 
nificent achievements. Of the two hundred regiments which 
Ohio sent to the field, none performed their duty better, nor are 
entitled to greater renown, than yours. During those years of 
war, when Ohio proved her loyalty to the Union and to her 
soldiers in the field; when her loyal people were giving us aid, 
comfort, and consolation; when her sons on other theaters of 
the war were performing their part in the awful tragedy, the 
soldiers of the Twelfth Ohio were following that battle-torn old 
banner wherever it was waving, in triumph, or were sleeping their 
last sleep on the fields which their valor has contributed to win. 
The battle-fields of Scarrey Creek, Carnifax Ferry, Gauley, Bull 
Run Bridge, South Mountain — and who of you will ever forget 
that terrible conflict, when you made three charges — the Twelfth 
Ohio charging the Twelfth North Carolina — when you captured 
three battle flags and two hundred prisoners, the battle-field of 
Antietam, Fayette Court House, Cloyd Mountain, New River 
Bridge, Quaker Church, Lynchburg, and others which I do not 
recall, over which your flag has floated in triumph, are enough 
to render your name and fame of this grand old Twelfth im- 
mortal. 

Well then might Ohio be proud of the record you were 
making for her. On whatever battle-field you stood, a new 
luster was added to her name ; and as one of her sons, my heart 



132 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

used to swell with joy and pride, as time after time tidings came 
from your far-distant camp-fires in Virginia, that the brave old 
Twelfth, whose ranks had been torn by shot and thinned by 
shell, still stood at her post of duty. Nobly did you fulfill your 
arduous trust during those stirring years of war. Soldiers of the 
Twelfth Ohio, let come what may, the record you have made is 
beyond reproach. So long as patriotism, constancy, and valor 
are esteemed, so long will your immortal deeds be cherished and 
revered by bravt men and noble women. The historian will 
look in vain to find a grander example of true patriotism than 
yours. Many of your bravest, truest, and best boys who went 
out with you did not return. You left them on the fields of 
battle, and on the mountains, and by the streams of Virginia, 
where no voice of mother, wife or sister, will ever wake them : 
where no kind hand will ever strew flowers upon their graves. 
They died for liberty — they died for us, and by us they shall 
never be forgotten. They will live in the affections of their 
countrymen and their country's history. It is eminently proper 
that you who survive them have these annual reunions, where 
you can mingle your joys and your sorrows, and where, in your 
imaginations, you can live over again your happiest days of the 
war. The people of Xenia, therefore, greet you with that genial, 
overflowing welcome, which is due to friends and brothers, to 
patriots and benefactors. We greet you as champions of the 
eternal principle, that all men are created equal, and that every 
man beneath our flag has a perfect right to the enjoyment of. 
life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Welcome, grand old 
patriots ! Welcome to the hearts and hospitalities of the people 
of Xenia. 

Comrade Holbrook, of Company F, responded: 
Citizens of Xenia and Friends : — In resi)onse to your greet- 
ing and welcome, in behalf of the members of the Twelfth regi- 
ment, we tender our sincere thanks. We remember that fromi 



THE TWELFTH. 



133 



Xenia came our colonel — whom we revere and honor — than 
whom upon the field, in the battle, tliere were none we respected 
more than Colonel Lowe. It is not proper for us to boast of 
what we have done ; but '.ve are not ashamed of our record in 
West and East Virginia, at Antietam, or Bull Run. We were of 
that kind that would not allow a goose to bite us or a pig to insult 
us. We are glad to be here together. Pardon us, if in our joy 
of meeting one another, we may seem to be unappreciative of 
your attentions or kindness as citizens of Xenia, but you know 
the object of our reunion is to live over the incidents of the war 
through which we served together as comrades. It may appear 
-selfish in us, but I assure you that it is not selfishness. This is 
our second reunion. I am glad to see so many here; would 
like to see more. We hope to so deport ourselves as to be 
worthy of your reception Please accept our hearty thanks for 
your kind reception. 

Sergeant Stockman, of Franklin, Ohio, the presiding officer, 
then announced that the minutes of the previous meeting would 
be read by the secretary. The regiment were banqueted at the 
St. George, where ample preparations were made. 

DINNER. 

The large dining-hall of the St. George was elaborately and 
tastefully decorated with flags, streamers, and evergreens, in 
reception of the Twelfth regimei t. At about 1:30 p. m., the 
regiment was dismissed from the Opera House, and marched to 
the hotel for dinner, which was enjoyed as only ex soldiers know 
how to enjoy a good thing. After dinner they were again 
assembled in the Opera House for the afternoon exercises 

Sergeant L. Stockman, presiding officer, announced that 
the exercises would consist of short speeches, incidents, songs, 
etc., and urged the boys to take part in the proceedings freely. 



134 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

RELICS. 

H. S. Day was then called upon to exhibit the relics, whichy 
fortunately, he had been thoughtful enough to save. Mr. Day 
thereupon ascended the stage, and, after some very appropriate 
introductory remarks, exhibited the flag of Company C, which 
was presented to the company by the ladies of New Richmond, 
Ohio, and which they had carried as far as " Flat Top." The 
old flag w^as siluted by three rousing cheers. The next relic 
called forth much amusement. It was a pen-made poster, an- 
nouncing the appearance of the "Buckeye Minstrels," at Fay- 
etteville. West Virginia, at the time that the regiment was winter- 
quartered there. The minstrel company was formed of the boys 
of the Twelfth Regiment, and the running remarks made about 
the poster, and the incidents related of the entertainment, were 
very enjoyable. The poster was executed by Joe Compton. 
Tickets of admission were also exhibited, and it was claimed that 
the boys had some way of counterfeiting tickets that annoyed the 
managers of the minstrel troupe very much. Mr. Day exhibited 
a pass issued to him while at Fayetteville. which he read, together 
with several official reports, and announced that he had at home 
a shoe, cast off by a fleeing rebel, when one of the Twelfth boys 
was after him ; also, a piece of a flag-staff tliat belonged to one 
of the North Carolina regiments that fought the Twelfth so stub- 
bornly. It was remarked that the Twelfth was at one time in an 
engagement with the Twelfth North Carolina, and in the same 
battle the Twenty-third Ohio was engaged with the Twenty-third 
North Carolina. The next relic was a flattened musket-ball that 
had killed Aaron Sayers at Meadow Bluffs. Photographs of 
Captain Channel and General J D. Cox were also presented, 
together with many other interesting papers and official reports 
referring to the gallant action of the regiment in the field, in one 
of which Captain W. H. Glotfelter, of this county, wjth others, 



THE TWELFTH. 135 

was recommended for promotion on account of gallant service. 
The papers and relics were then delivered to the secretary, to be 
placed in the archives of the regiment. Messrs. Holbrook, 
Rigor, Lyons, Steve Mitchell, Captain "Buck" Smith, Captain 
Hilt, Sergeant Stockman, and many others whose names we 
could not get, related incidents, eliciting amusement and ap- 
plause. 

A DEAD LIVE MAN. 

Thomas E. Gaddis called attention to the fact that there 
was present in the hall Pat. Pedit, who was reported killed in 
one of the battles, and his funeral obsequies had been duly cele- 
brijted in Germantown, Ohio. Sergeant Stockman then related 
the strange occurrence substantially as follows : At the second 
battle of Bull Run we were compelled to retreat. I saw comrade 
Pedit leaning against a stump. I touched him on the shoulder, 
and told him to get away from there, the rebels were coming. 
He was wounded badly, and as he looked pale, and did not an- 
swer me I supposed him to be dead. Captain Sherwood wrote 
to Mrs. Pedit that her husband had been killed. The friends at 
his home in Germantown arranged for the funeral, the Odd 
Fellows conducted services, the minister preached the funeral, 
and the audience was very large. Some time after — I think it 
was while we were at Antietam — some one received a letter 
from Pat. Pedit, asking about his knapsack. Well ! we all had 
some trouble about our knapsacks, but we all liad supposed that 
Pedit would never care for his knapsack again. He was cap- 
tured, and being wounded, was unable to send word home for a 
long time — this letter was the first heard of him. We are glad 
to see him here alive to-day, and I request him to stand up that 
we all may see him. Mr. Pedit, with a wounded arm in a sling, 
stood up and modestly bowed to his comrades, who greeted him 
with cheers. Mr. Holbrook was called upon to i)roduce, if it 



136 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

was possible, a large knife which he had captured from the 
enemy. He said that he did not know where it was at present, 
but it was quite a large knife, like a corn-cutter, and had in- 
scribed on it, ''Death to Yanks." Some one added that Mr. 
Holbrook captured the knife from a six-footer. 

''MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA." 

After frequent calls, Thomas Gaddis, Professor Holbrook, 
and Iliff, took the positon in front and led the regiment in this 
stirring song, whose strong chorus — in which the regiment 
joined — fairly shook the Opera House. After the song William 
Dingess, of Company D, from Jamestown, arose in the rear of 
the house and said, "Though we did not march to the sea, I am 
glad we had the honor of marching to what we did see^ 

Letters of regrets from the following absent members were 
read: J. W. Goldener, Greenville, Ohio; F. Gunkle, Dayton, 
Ohio; J. B. Homan, Blanchester, Ohio; E. K. King, Percival 
Hawes, Pike, Kansas, and H. F. Cramer. Captain B. Nesbitt, 
of this city, was then called upon and made a short address. 

Resolutions thanking the comrades of Greene County, and 
the people of Xenia, for their kind reception, were passed with 
three hearty cheers and a tiger. 

The following resolution was then offered by Thomas Gad- 
dis : 

Resolved, That we are acquainted with the facts in the case of our 
comrade, T. J. Sutton, of Company H, and that we hereby admit him to 
good standing in our association, and we also autliorize our officers to 
attach their official signatures to his petition for an honorable discharge. 

The resolution received a unanimous and emphatic ap- 
proval. The executive committee was announced, namely, 
George A. Stivers, Isaac Boswell, and William Quickbaum. 

The president then announced the next thing in order to be 



THE TWELFTH. 137 

the election of officers for the ensuing year, which was proceeded 
with, and the following were air elected unanimously: Pres- 
ident, L. Stockman; Vice-president, J. L. Hill; Secretary and 
Treasurer, George A. Stivers ; Corresponding Secretary, W. B. 
Nesbit. 

Several places were named for holding the next reunion, 
but after considerable discussion, Ripley, Ohio, was selected, 
and the third Thursday in October, 1884, as the date. 

MEMBERS PRESENT. 

The following is a list of the members who were present : 

COMPANY A. 

James Phillips, Morrow; H. C. Parker, Morrow; James 
Ireland, Morrow; C. B. Riley, Blanchester; John Kline, Cin- 
cinnati ; Edward Mader, Cincinnati ; Elias Whitacre, Edwards- 
ville; James Eagle, Clarksville; H. P. Kiphart, Clarksville ; E. 
R. Grim, Morrow; G. N. Smith, Dayton; John Troville, Mor- 
row. 

COMPANY B. 

I. M. Duncan, New Vienna; J. W. Matthews, New Vi- 
enna; W. H. Glotfelter, Alpha; W. W. B. Alexander, Lagonda; 
A. L. Wright, Xenia; Robert McCreight, Xenia; Ab. Keble, 
Xenia ; H. L. Hay, Parkersville, Kansas; R. J. Johnson, Mt. 
Carmel. 

COMPANY C. 

J. A. Enson, Berrien Sj)rings, Michigan; G. H. Slade, 
Bantam: Charles McMast, Moscow; Steve Mitchell, Cincin- 
inati. 

COMPANY D. 

J. E. Brown, Jamestown ; F. G. Barber, Garnet, Kansas ; 



138 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

R. B. Beard, Clinton County, Kansas ; H. D. Kline, Cedar- 
ville; John Cordingly, Yellow Springs; John Davis. Mechanics- 
burg; W. A. Doyer, Jamestown; J. H. Davidson, Xenia; 
Michael Donelly, Yellow Springs; Ellis Dorriel; H. W. Ford, 
Cedarville; L. C. Ginn, Yellow Springs; J. S. Harper, Xenia; 
J. L. Harper, Eureka Springs, Arkansas ; H. C. Huffin'; J. F. 
Harris, Jamestown ; W. H. Ihff, Cedarville ; C. W. Stevenson, 
Xenia; I. H. Iliff, Cedarville; Alex. Turnbull, Cedarville; I. 
W. Irwin, Cedarville; John Kirkwood, Springfield; J. T. Wil- 
lis, Straughn, Indiana; W. B. Smith, South Salem, Indiana; 
Fred Snively, Xenia. 

COMPANY E. 

J. L. Van Allen, Utica; J. M. Deboth, Utica; Wilson 
Lamb, Newark ; James Houghy, Newark ; Matthias Bigger, 
Newark ; D. Weaver, Utica. 

COMPANY F. 

R. B. Wilson, Cincinnati ; J. H. Smith, Lebanon ; Irwin 
Snook, Lebanon ; C. K. Dunham, Waynesville ; E. K. Snook, 
South Lebanon; W. P. Bailey, Morrow; H. M. Cox, South 
Lebanon ; Josiah Holbrook, Lebanon ; John M. Snook, Lebanon. 

COMPANY G. 

J. T. Hilt, Middleton; J. N. Yager, Jacksonville; N. 
Miars, Piqua; John Vannote, Lebanon; Joe Pettitt, German- 
town ; Wm. Boore, Germantown ; L. Stockman, West Carlisle ; 
J. Van Tillbury, Germantown. 

COMPANY H. 

Samuel Yeaton, Ripley; George Stivers, Ripley; M. Creek- 
baum, Ripley; H. Fisher, Ripley; G. W. Shaw, Ripley; T. 
Lowry, Maysville, Kentucky; Tom Sutton, Aberdeen; T. C. 
Gaddis, Cincinnati; J. E. D. Ward, Dayton. 



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COMPANV I. 

Sol. R. Smith, Lincoln, Illinois; John Schon, Dayton; 
Wm. Hink, Dayton; Jacob Yeider, Hartford City, Indiana; 
Charles Conner, Oxford, Iowa; J. Garruch, Greenville; P.. 
Smith, Columbus. 

COMPANY K. 

R. M. Riley, Blanchester; D. M. Taylor, Hillsborp; W. 
H. Barker, Centerville ; J. W. Eddington, Cincinnati; J. K. 
Church, Shelbyville, Illinois; E. E. Hixon, Martinsville; H. 
Earhart, Dayton. 



Ninety-Fourth Regiment, 0. V. I. 



This regiment was organized at Camp Piqua, Miami County, 
Ohio, under the immediate supervision of Colonel J. W. Frizell. 
The officers were appointed on the 22d of July, 1862, and so 
vigorously was the recruiting prosecuted, that in just one month 
one thousand and ten men were mustered into the United States 
-service. 

On the 28th of August, without uniforms or camp equipage, 
and never having been drilled as a regiment, the Ninety-fourth 
was ordered to Kentucky — that state being then invaded by 
rebel forces under Kirby Smith. It proceeded via Cincinnati, 
and upon arriving in that city, was immediately ordered to Lex- 
ington. By great perseverance the colonel succeeded in obtain- 
ing three rounds of cartridges to the man ; and being supplied 
with this very limited amount of ammunition, and sufficient 
clothing to supply immediate wants, the regiment took the cars 
for Lexington, arriving at 9:00 p. m., on Saturday night, where 
they heard, for the first time, an authentic account of the battle 
of Richmond. 

After considerable search the colonel succeeded in finding 
the officer to whom he was to report, but in such a beastly state 
of intoxication as to be unable to rise from his bed, and perfectly 
incompetent to give intelligent instructions. With the assistance 
of some citizens, passable quarters were obtained for the men. 
Hungry, tired, and anxious for the morning, the regiment tried 
■bivouacking for the first time. 

Sunday morning dawned bright and beautiful, disclosing the 



■fHE NINETY FOtJRTHv 141 

town full of stragglers from the Richmond battle-field, relating 
wild stories of defeat and disaster, and though but little confi- 
dence was placed in their reports, still this, together with the 
general gloom always attending such a state of affairs as then 
existed, caused the order for the regiment to proceed to Tate's- 
Ford, on the Kentucky River, fifteen miles east of Lexington, on 
the Richmond road, to be received with fearful foreboding. 
However, the order was obeyed without a murmur, and after a 
hard day's march under a scorching sun, over a dry and dii-ty 
road, with water very scarce, the regiment arrived near the field 
just at dark. This being the first march the regiment had made, 
the men were much exhausted, and dropped to the ground as- 
.soon as the order to halt was given. 

While the colonel was endeavoring — as best he could in 
the darkness — to select a position which could be easily de- 
fended, a fire was opened upon the regiment by a rebel scouting 
party, concealed in the thickets skirting the road, and it was 
afterward ascertained that the whole of Kirby Smith's army was- 
encamped but a couple of miles north of the Ford. A veteran 
regiment could not have behaved better than did the Ninety- 
fourth on this occasion. The night was very dark, the men 
were lying down, and many had already fallen asleep, but after 
the confusion incident to their rude awakening, very little trouble 
was experienced in getting the regiment properly formed. The 
rebel fire lasted but a moment, yet two men were killed and six 
wounded. 

After posting his men to the best advantage, Colonel Frizell 
remained with the advance picket-post — which, from the nature 
of the country, was but a short distance from the regiment — all 
night. Major King, Captain Drury, and the adjutant occupying 
intermediate positions between the colonel and the regiment. 
The night passed slowly and without further alarm, and as soon 
as daylight appeared the hungry men began looking in some 



142 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

wagons that had arrived during the night for the supplies, which 
the officer in command at Lexington had said he would send. 
The search revealed one hundred and twenty-five rounds of 
ammunition to each man, and three sacks of green coffee to the 
regiment. 

While endeavoring to make a breakfast from these "sup- 
plies," the rebel army was reported advancing, and soon com- 
menced shelling the regiment from a battery they had placed in 
position in the woods just across the river. Colonel Frizell 
watched the maneuvers of the rebels for a few moments, and 
then ordered his adjutant to form the regiment and march back 
until past the road, where it was supposed the rebels would 
attempt to form and prevent a retreat. The niovement was 
effected in good order, but none too soon, as the rear guard had 
just passed the road when the rebels came trooping from it into 
the pike, and began firing upon Captain Drury's command, 
which had been selected as rear guard. Colonel Frizell re- 
mained in the rear until the advancing rebels were checked, 
. when he directed the regiment to a certain point, and there to 
form for action. He knew that his force was greatly outnum- 
bered, but his order was to contest every foot of ground back 
to Lexington. Just as the movement was begun a messenger 
arrived with an order from General G. C. Smith, dated the night 
before, for the Ninety-fourth to return to Lexington with all 
possible dispatch. 

The regiment was now twelve miles from any support, with 
a fresh and victorious enemy, more than ten times superior in 
numbers, close in the rear, and to successfully conduct a retreat 
of raw troops under such circumstances, required the most thor- 
ough ability on the part of the commander, and the most un- 
doubted confidence on the part of the men. The regiment 
toiled along the hot and dusty road, Colonel Frizell and Captain 
Drury fearlessly exposing themselves, together with the other 



THE NINETY-FOURTH. 143 

officers, to prevent straggling; but their efforts could not prevent 
quite a number of the almost-exhausted men from falling by the 
wayside, and becoming an easy prey to the closely pursuing 
enemy. At four o'clock the regiment reached Lexington, greatly 
to the surprise of every one who knew that it had gone out on 
the expedition. The order sending it to the Ford was a blunder, 
and probably the only thing that prevented its capture was the 
very boldness of the movements made. 

Our army that had retreated from Richmond had already 
left Lexington, still in retreat toward Louisville, and all stores 
that could not be easily transferred had oeen destroyed. With 
the exception of coffee and crackers on Sunday morning, the 
men of the Ninety fourth had had little to eat since Saturday 
morning, were tired and foot-sore, and in bad condition for 
, further marching. In the absence of instructions to the con- 
trary, it was Colonel Frizell's intention to remain in Lexington, 
unless driven out, until the men had procured the much-needed 
food and rest; but the order for continued retreat reached him, 
and was obeyed. At daylight the retreating army reached Ver- 
sailles, and a halt for breakfast was ordered, but just as the coffee 
began to boil another order to fall in came from the officer in 
command. The season was very dry, and but little water could 
be obtained. The suffering in consequence of this may be in- 
ferred from the fact that the Ohio soldiers gave five dollars for a 
canteen full of muddy water — a dollar a drink — and many 
drank from standing pools the water that the horses refused to 
touch. The roads were almost ankle deep with dust, and the 
sun shone fiery overhead. The dav's march began at from two 
to three o'clock in the morning, ana continued until late in the 
night, and the only provisions issued — or to be obtained — were 
a few hard crackers each night and what green corn yet remained 
in the fields adjacent to the camping-grounds. The troops were 
all, or nearly all, newly enlisted, and being unused to such a life. 



144 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

it is not to be wondered at that they fell out of the ranks by the 
hundred, and were so easily captured by the force of rebels fol- 
lowing. 

Upon arriving at Louisville the Ninety fourth went inta 
camp, without tents, in the woods, but the men were so utterly 
exhausted that their only need was rest, as best they could get it. 
Having been deprived almost entirely bf sleep, water, and food 
for seven days, marching night and day, with feet and limbs 
swollen almost to bursting, and every sense dulled with suffer- 
ing, many of the men ^were pitiable objects. In a sliort time, 
however, all had regained comparative strength, health, and 
cheerfuhiess, and were ready to go where duty called. 

The first regular report that the adjutant could make after 
arriving at Louisville, showed a loss of two hundred and eighteen 
men. With the exception of the two men killed at Tate s Ford, 
all eventually returned to the regiment, having been paroled by 
the rebels almost as soon as captured. 

With the exception of some hard work in the trenches and 
on fortifications, and a participation in two or three ''grand re- 
views," the regiment had very easy times until the first of Octo- 
ber, when the movement began, which resulted in the battle of 
Perryville, and the driving of Bragg's rebel army from Kentucky. 
Previous to the battle of Perryville the Ninety-fourth had been 
assigned to Rosseau's division of McCook's corps, and took an 
active part in the engagement, being highly complimented in 
general orders. The regiment broke camp near Nashville on 
Christmas-day, 1862, and was in advance of the army marching 
on Murfreesboro, and during the battle of Stone River was 
engaged every day — from Wednesday until Saturday. The 
Ninety-fourth was again in advance on Tullahoma, participating 
in the fight at Hoover's Gap in June, 1863, had a skirmish at 
Dug Gap, and were engaged in the hard fought battle of Chicka- 
mauga. At l^ookout Mountain and Mission Ridge the regiment 



THE NINETY-FOURTH. 145 

again took a prominent part, participating in the grand charge 
upon the Ridge ; was with Sherman on the march to Atlanta, 
taking part in the batdes at Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, Kingston, 
Pumpkinvine Creek, Kennesaw Mountain, Chattahoochie River, 
Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, and Jonesboro. After pursuing 
Hood, the Ninety-fourth participated in Sherman's grand march 
to the sea, arriving at Savannah before Christmas. On the 20th 
of January, 1865, it was again on the march through North and 
South Carolina, and after participating in the battle at Benton- 
ville. North Carolina, arrived at Goldsboro on the 23d of March, 
1865. The Ninety-fourth was the first regiment of infantry to 
enter Raleigh, North Carolina, and soon after the surrender of 
Johnston marched to Washington, via Richmond and Alexan- 
dria, participating in the grand review before the President, 
General Grant, and others, and was mustered out of the service 
at Washington on the 6th of June, 1865, with an aggregate of 
three hundred and thirty-eight men — all that were left of them — 
left of one thousand and ten ! 

10 



One Hundred and Tenth, 0. V. I. 



This regiment was organized at Camp Piqua, Ohio, on the 
3d of October, 1862. On the 19th of October the regiment 
moved by railroad to Zanesville, thence by steamer to Marietta, 
and from thence by railroad to Parkersburg, Virginia. On the 
3d of November it marched to Clarksburg, where it remained 
until the 25th, and then took the cars for New Creek, where it 
arrived the next day. Here it remained in camp, fortifying, and 
drilling, and performing guard and picket duty, until December 
13th, whence it marched, via Burlington and Petersburg, to 
Moorfield, Virginia. Three hundred men from the One Hun- 
dred and Tenth joined an expedition to move in the direction of 
Winchester, Virginia, while the remainder of the regiment moved 
with another expedition in the direction of Romney. The main 
portion of the regiment arrived at Winchester, without serious 
interruption, on the 1st of January, 1863, and joined the detach- 
ment which had arrived a week previous. 

While at Winchester the regiment was assigned to the first 
brigade, second division, eighth army corps, and companies A 
and D were detailed as provost guard. The regiment was em- 
ployed in guard and picket duty, in drilling, fortifying, and 
making raids and reconnoissances. At one time a detachment 
went to Front Royal and captured a large amount of stores. At 
another time a detachment proceeded to Summit Point and 
other places, dispersing bands of rebels and destroying stores . 
and in the early part of May the regiment marched to New 
Market and returned. On the 13th of June the regiment was 



THE ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH. .147 

moved out to Kernstown, and engaged Lee's advance. This is 
the first time the regiment was under fire, but they behaved 
bravely. On the morning of the 14th the One Hundred and 
Tenth occupied a small earthwork, about three-fourths of a mile 
from the main fort. In the afternoon the enemy opened on it 
with twenty-six pieces of artillery, and advanced in strong col- 
umns to the assault. The regiment held the works until it was 
driven out at the point of the bayonet by an overwhelming 
force. It attempted to retire in the night, but was met by the 
enemy, and a two hours' engagement ensued, in which the 
regiment succeeded in cutting its way through, and marched to 
Harper's Ferry. 

On the 16th of June the regiment crossed the river and 
encamped on Maryland Heights. On the 1st of July it went by- 
canal to Georgetown, D. C, then to Tenallytown, then to 
Washington, and from thence to Frederick City, Maryland. At 
this place the regiment was assigned to the second brigade, third 
division, third army corps, Army of the Potomac. Marched in 
pursuit of Lee to Williamsport, Loudon, Upperville, and Ma- 
nassas Gap, where it skirmished with the enemy, and reached 
Fox's Ford, on the Rappahannock, on the 1st of August. On 
the morning of the 15th the regiment left the Ford, took the cars 
at Bealton Station for Alexandria, and from there to New York, 
where the regiment camped for awhile on Governor's Island, and 
then moved to Carrol Park, South Brooklyn. On the 6th of 
September the regiment returned, via Alexandria, to Fox's 
Ford, and marched from there to Culpepper, Virginia, in charge 
of an ammunition-train. On the 10th of October it moved out 
to meet an attack, and remained there all nigljt under arms, and 
the next day marched across the Hazell and Rappahannock 
rivers, through Centerville, Bristow, Catlett's Station, and at last 
reached and occupied the first line, near the Rappahaimock. 
On the 7th of November the regiment crossed the river, skir- 



148 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

misbing with the enemy, and the next morning made a recon- 
noissance, and captured between thirty and forty prisoners. In 
the afternoon the One Hundred and Tenth, in advance of 
Brandy Station, was severely shelled by the artillery, and was 
the first to occupy the enemy's position. 

Upon breaking camp at Brandy Station, four companies of 
the regiment were detached as train guard, and the others took 
a prominent part in the battle of Locust Grove, losing five killed 
and twenty wounded. The regiment returned to Brandy Station, 
December 3d, and occupied winter quarters. 

During the month of March, 1864, the One Hundred and 
Tenth became a part of the second brigade, third division, sixth 
army corps. On the 4th of March the regiment crossed the 
Rapidan, at Germania Ford, and the next day took a position 
on the extreme right of the national line at the Wilderness. 
After brisk skirmishing it advanced to charge, and drove the 
enemy to their works. The regiment held its- position until after 
dark, and only fell back when its ammunition was exhausted. 
The loss sustained was one officer killed, and six wounded : 
eighteen men killed, eighty-two wounded, and eleven missing. 
The next day the regiment occupied the second line, but was 
much exposed to artillery. In the evening, the brigade on the 
right being routed, the One Hundred p.nd Tenth fell back about 
a mile, and held the new position all day on the 7th, and in the 
evening fell back through Chancellorsville to the vicinity of 
Spottsylvania C. H. Here the regiment was engaged in fortify- 
ing and skirmishing until the 14th, when it marched toward 
Spottsylvania, waded the Nye River after dark,, and occupied 
the enemy's works, from which they had been driven. The One 
Hundred and Tenth was almost constantly engaging the enemy, 
marching via Guinea Station and Chesterfield Station, crossing 
the Pamunky, and throwing up fortifications on Dr. Palmer's 
farm. 



THE ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH. 149 

On the 1st of June the regiment was engaged at Cold Har- 
bor. In the assault on the enemy's works on the 3d, the regi- 
ment was in the front line, and was ordered to continue the 
advance after the line halted, which it did, and was exposed for 
two hours, when it was withdrawn. During the entire day the 
regiment was exposed to a heavy fire, losing one commissioned 
officer, four men killed, and thirty-four wounded. 

On the 14th the regiment left the works, crossed the Chick- 
ahominy, passed Charles City, C. H., embarked on the transport 
Star, landed at Point of Rocks, and marched to Bermuda Hun- 
dred. In the evening of the 19th it crossed the Appomattox, 
and arrived near Petersburg. After resting a day it marched to 
the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, and charged the enemy's 
line, driving it in ; and a iew days later moved to the Petersburg 
and Weldon Railroad. 

On the 30th of June the enemy commenced its return, and 
on the 2d of July occupied its former position near Petersburg. 
It embarked on the transport City of Albany, for Baltimore, where 
it arrived on the 8th, and took the cars for Monocacy Junction, 
and took part in the Monocacy battle. From there it went to 
Ellicott's Mills, where it arrived on the 10th of July. On the 
11th the regiment went to Baltimore, and camped at Druid Hill 
Park until the 14th, when it took the cars to Washington, and 
the next day after marched through Tenallytown, waded the 
Potomac near Edward's Ferry, passed through Snicker's Gap to 
the Shenandoah, skirmished with the enemy, and rested awhile. 
On the 20th the regiment crossed the Shenandoah, then re- 
crossed the river, and marched all night, arriving at \yashington 
again on the 23d. Three days after it broke camp and marched 
through Hyattstown, Monocacy Junction, Frederick City, Mary- 
land, and Harper's Ferry to Healltown, arriving on the 29th, 
and on the next day fell back through Harper's Ferry to Freder- 
ick City, Maryland. On the 3d of August the regiment resumed 



150 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

the march through Buckeyetown, crossed the Monocacy at 
Monocacy Mills, then moved by cars from Monocacy Junction 
to Bolivar, and marched from there to Healltown. On the 
morning of the 10th it marched through Charleston, Newtown, 
and Middletown^ arriving at Cedar Creek on the 12th. Here it 
was engaged in several skirmishes, and on the 16th marched 
as train guard to Charleston. It fell back to Bolivar Heights, 
but again advanced to Charleston, and on the 29th, in an en- 
gagement, completely routed the rebels. On the 3d of Septem- 
ber the regiment marched to Clifton Farm and fortified. On the 
19th it crossed the Opequan, and engaged in the battle of Win- 
chester. It engaged the rebels at Fisher's Hill, capturing four 
pieces of artillery and one hundred prisoners, then marched to 
Mount Crawford, and returned to Harper's Ferry. On the 6th 
of October it moved to Strasburg, and from there to the vicinity 
of Front Royal. On the 13th it marched to Ashby's Gap, and 
on the next day returned and camped at Cedar Creek. 

On the morning of the 19th of October, when the eighth 
and nineteenth corps were driven back, the Sixth Corp, with the 
One Hundred and Tenth Ohio in the front line, was fornied to 
arrest the advancing rebels, and in the final effort, which resulted 
in routing the rebels, no regiment took a more active part than 
the One Hundred and Tenth. It lost two officers wounded — 
one of whom died a few days after — five men killed, and 
twenty-seven wounded, and one officer and one man missing. 
In the evening the regiment occupied the camp from which it 
had been driven in the morning, and occupied it until November 
9th, when it encamped one mile from Keinstown, and built 
winter quarters. On the 3d of December it marched to Stebbin's 
Station, took cars for Washington, proceeded thence to City 
Point by steamer, took cars near midnight on the 6th, and 
arrived at the front at daylight. It occupied the line east of the 
Weldon Railroad, a.nd proceeded to build winter quarters. 



THE ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH. 151 

On the 9th of February, 1865, the regiment took position 
between forts Fisher and Welch, and again erected winter quar- 
ters. On the 25th of March the entire brigade assaulted the 
strongly entrenched picket-line, and after a second charge, under 
a severe fire, carried it, capturing a large number of prisoners 
and small arms. 

An assault was made on the enemy's works before Peters- 
burg, on the 2d of April. Just before daybreak, and before it 
was fairly light, the Sixth Corps was in possession of the fortifi- 
cations and many prisoners and guns. The regiment pursued 
the enemy, routing him at Saylor's Creek, and continuing the 
pursuit until the surrender of Lee. 

The regiment marched to Burksville Junction, and on the 
17th, at the presentation of captured flags to Major General 
Meade, the One Hundred and Tenth — having captured more 
flags than any other regiment in the corps — was selected as a 
guard of honor to escort them to General Meade's head- 
quarters. 

The regiment proceeded to Richmond, Virginia, and while 
passing through the city was reviewed by General Halleck ; from 
there it proceeded to Washington City, where it was reviewed 
by the President and Cabinet at the Executive Mansion. Dur- 
ing its term of service the regiment was in twenty-one engage- 
ments, and sustained a loss in killed, and wounded, and missing, 
of seven hundred and ninety-five men. It was mustered out at 
Washington City on the 25th of June, 1865, and was discharged 
at Todd's Barracks, Columbus, Ohio. 



152 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



KEIFER LEADS THE VAN 



REGIMENTAL SONG, ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH, O. V. I. 



BY LIEUT. H. Y. RUSH. 



TUNE— Uncle Sam. 
Come, Buckeye boys, and let us sing, for now we've shouldered arms, 
We've left our wives and sweethearts home, with all their love and charms. 
The hills and dales, the old homestead, the lovely scenes of youth, 
We've bid a sad farewell to all, to battle for the truth. 

CHORUS. 

Then march along, march along, for Keifer leads the van. 
And Foster he will stick to us as long as there's a man; 
Then march along, march along, for Binkley's with us, too ; 
And he will never square the books till Davis gets his due. 

The traitors first shot down our flag that o'er proud Sumter stood. 
And reared their filthy rebel rag, all stained with Union blood. 
But Yankee boys can rear again that Banner of the Free, 
Whose folds shall all be kissed again with zephyrs from the sea. 

Chorus — Then march along, etc. 

The rebels they would fain tear down this temple of the free, 
And build instead their cushion'd homes of aristocracy. 
But from this temple not a stone shall ever be removed ; 
For in her halls is justice found, as foreign lands have proved. 

Chorus — Then march along, etc. 

Our country is the best on earth, and bears the fairest name; 

And she can boast of giving birth to men' of deathless fame ; 

There's Washington, whose dauntless deeds still keep his mem'ry green, 

And Jackson, too, who whipped John Bull, so nice at New Orleans. 

Chorus — Then march along, etc. 



THE ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH. 153 

Poor Jeff, he thinks he's very sharp, and Yancey boasts of wit ; 
But we can whet our tools, my boys, for Yankees have the grit. 
They call us stupid "mud-sills," boys, and other curious names. 
But we have logic in our guns, and more within our brains. 

Chorus — Then march along, etc. 

Ne'er let your hands grow weary, boys, while in this noble cause, 
Till every rebel grounds his arms, submitting to our laws ; 
Till on a strong palmetto-limb, a curious fruit you see, 
Jeff Davis to a strong hemp rope "a-dancing jubilee." 

Chorus — Then march along, etc. 

"We now are in that " Dixie land," of which we often sing ; 
And now the music of that song shall from the musket ring. 
We come with love within our hearts, but lead within our guns. 
With sharp and tickling bayonets to make the rebels run. 

Chorus — Then march along, etc. 

Come, let us press with vigor on, and crush rebellion down, 
Then union, peace, and plenty all, shall through the land abound. 
'Then wives and children left behind, and sweethearts brave and true 
Will welcomfi back the Buckeye boys that put the rebels through. 

Chorus — Then march along, etc. 



Fortv-Fourth Reoiment. 0. A'. I. 



This regiment rendezvoused at the fair grounds, near Spring- 
field, Ohio, during the summer and autumn of 1S61, and on the 
l-trh of October, being fully organized, it moved, via Cincinnati, 
to Camp Piatt, West Virginia. On the morning of the 19th, 
having reached its destination, the regiment disembarked and 
pitched its tents for the first time on disputed ground. Two 
weeks after its arrival five companies were ordered to Gauley 
Bridge, and assisted in driving Floyd from his camp, and en- 
sraared in all the skirmishes durinsr his retreat. Before their 
return two hundred men from the regiment crossed the Ka- 
nawha, marched to Platona, captured the place, and moved on 
against Colonel Jenkins, at Logan C. H. — but the colonel de- 
camped before their arrival. After being absent six days they 
returned, bringing in seven prisoners, some horses, and one 
hundred head of cattle. 

After these expeditions the regiment remained in camp for 
five months, quietly drilling. Winter quarters were built, and 
the men comfortably sheltered. During the month of November 
Captain John M. Bell, of Company K, with an orderly sergeant 
and six men, were drowned while crossing the river in a skiff, to 
relieve the picket on the other side. This sad accident cast a 
gloom over the whole regiment, and it was felt that a serious loss 
had been sustained. During the latter part of the winter com- 
panies A, B, and K were stationed on the opposite side of the 
river from Camp Piatt, for the better security of the camp. 

On the 1st of May, 1S62, the regiment moved up the river 



THE FORTY FOURTH. 155 

to Gauley Bridge, and was brigaded with the Thirty-sixth and 
Forty-seventh O. V. I., under Colonel George Crook. The 
brigade moved to Lewisburg, and from there the Forty-fourth 
and another regiment penetrated as far as Dublin Depot, on the 
Jackson River Railroad, and destroyed a portion of the track. 
Hearing that a large force of rebels were trying to intercept their 
retreat, the two companies withdrew to Lewisburg, where the 
enemy appeared on the 23d of May, and was not only repulsed 
but routed, leaving most of their dead and wounded to fall into 
the hands of our troops, together with three pieces of artillery 
and many prisoners. They occupied the place for a short time 
after the fight, then fell back to Meadow Bluffs, where they 
encamped until the middle of August. 

The Forty-fourth took up the line of march on the 15th of 
August, toward the Kanawha, halting a week at Camp Ewing, 
and then falling back to Camp Tompkins. A force of six 
thousand rebels was advancing against the four regiments in the 
valley, and on the 9th of September the two regiments on the 
right bank — the Forty-fourth and another — were attacked, and 
fell back on Gauley, where a stand was made until the teams 
could be removed from danger, when the retreat began in ear- 
nest. The Forty fourth marched in the rear all day and nearly 
all night, covering the retreating column until it reached Camp 
Piatt. The national forces fell back upon Charleston, and on 
the 13th the rebels made the attack and were firmly met. Su- 
perior numbers finally forced the Union lines back, but every 
foot of ground was hotly contested. Our forces withdrew across 
a deep tributary of the Kanawha, and with a few blows of an 
ax severed the hawsers that held the suspension bridge, and it 
fell with a crash into the stream. The retreat now continued in 
safety to Racine, on the Ohio River, and from that place the 
troops were taken by steamer to Point Pleasant. Transportation 
was procured, and they were sent forward into Kentucky. They 



156 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

encamped some time at Covington, watching the movements of 
Kirby Smith, and on his retreat they pursued as far as Lexing- 
ton, where they were ordered into camp and a'^signed to the 
Second Brigade, Second Division, Army of Kentucky, com- 
manded by General Gordon Granger. The regiment was 
actively engaged in scouting, taking in its field of operations 
Richmond and Danville. 

On the 20th of December the regiment returned to Frank- 
fort and was mounted, and from that time, until Burnside's 
advance into Tennessee, there was but little rest for man or 
beast. The men almost lived in the saddle. It was continual 
advance and retreat, with almost constant skirmishing. The 
regiment partook in the engagement of Dunstan's Hill, charging 
the rebels and contributing materially to their rout. The regi- 
ment was frequently engaged in chasing John Morgan, though 
with not very satisfactory results, as he generally proved the 
faster rider. 

When General Burnside made his advance into Tennessee 
the Forty-fourth was dismounted and accompanied him. It can 
claim equality with any other regiment of all that took part in 
this expedition. Finally, falling back on Knoxville, and throw- 
ing up fortifications^ it lay in the wet, chilly ditches day and 
night When the rebels retreated the regiment pursued, and on 
its return went into camp at Strawberry Plains. 

On the 1st of January, 1864, the proposal to re-enlist was 
made to the regiment, accompanied by the promise that they 
should be armed and mounted as cavalry. Before the 5th — out 
of six hundred men — five hundred and fifty had re-enlisted. 
>0n the 7th they marched for Camp Nelson, Kentucky, and on 
ithe 21st took cars for Cincinnati, where they arrived the next 
day, and were quartered in the Fifth Street Bazaar, erected for 
the Sanitary Fair. Here they were obliged to wait until muster- 
out and muster-in rolls could be made out. This was at last 



THE FORTY-FOURTH 157 

accomplished, and the men were mustered by the 29th, and 
started on a special train for Springfield. Their arrival was 
heralded by the booming of cannon, and they were received 
with joyous shouts and enthusiastic greetings. In a few days 
the men were paid off and furloughed, and when they again 
assembled it was under the name of the Eighth Ohio Cavalry, of 
which the following is a brief sketch : 

On the 28th of March, 18G4, the veterans and recruits of 
the Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry were ordered to report at Camp 
Dennison, where they went without delay, and were organized 
into the Eighth Ohio Cavalry. On the 26th of April six com- 
panies — not mounted — were ordered to Charleston, West Vir- 
ginia, and on the 8th of May the detachment remaining in camp 
was ordered to march to Cincinnati, to be transported thence by 
steamer to Charleston. On the 10th they left camp for Cincin- 
nati, mounted on horseback, with no rein but a rope, and each 
man leading two or three horses. They arrived in the city a 
little after noon, in a drenching rain, and by dark were on the 
boat on their way up the river. On the second mornmg after 
they started they landed at Guyandotte, and again mounting 
barebacked rode to Charleston, arriving on the 14th, very much 
exhausted. 

At Charleston the Eighth was armed with carbines and 
drew-saddles, and on the 29th of May marched for Lewisburg, 
where they arrived on the 1st of June, and on the 3d started 
with Averill on the Tynchburg raid. The regiment was first 
assigned to General Duffie's brigade, and afterwards to Colonel 
Schoonmaker's Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. On the 9th 
they arrived at Staunton, formed a junction with General Hun- 
ter, and on the 13th moved to Buchannon, where they rested 
until the 15th. They had frequent skirmishes, doing good serv- 
ice, until they arrived at White Sulphur Springs, where they 
arrived on the 24th, and from thence moved to Beverly, arriving 



158 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

at noon on the 30th, having marched six hundred miles. On 
the 23d of August companies C, H, and K — eighty men in 
all — were surprised and captured at Huttonsville. The men 
were released, but all their equipments and horses taken by the 
rebels. Soon after Company A was captured, and the captain 
and some of the men taken to Richmond. About the 1st of 
December Colonel Moore joined the regiment. They were at 
Winchester, fought at Fisher's Hill, and barely escaped at Cedar 
Creek. On the 11th of January the rebels surprised the camp, 
killing and wounding twenty-five, and capturing .five hundred 
and seventy men and eight officers. They were taken to Libby 
Prison, but afterwards paroled at Columbus, Ohio, and in August 
were mustered out of the service at Camp Dennison. 




Tenth Ohio Batteiy. 



This battery was organized at Xenia, Ohio, on the 9th of 
January, 1862, and was mustered into service on the 3d of 
March. It was ordered to St. Louis, Missouri, and on the 4th 
of April moved up the Tennessee River to Pittsburg Landing, 
where it arrived on the 9th. On the 13th it received some 
twenty men from the Thirteenth Ohio Battery. 

With the rest of the army the Tenth moved upon Corinth, 
but during the siege it was held in reserve. The Battery re- 
mained at Corinth from the 25th of June to the middle of Sep- 
tember. It then moved to luka, and remained at that post on 
garrison duty. 

While at luka orders were received to procure forage from 
the country. A portion of the men, under command of Lieu- 
tenant Grossekoff, while in the performance of this duty, were 



160 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

attacked by Roddy's rebel cavalry, at a point five miles below 
luka, and lost, by capture, privates William F. Nixon, Richard 
Sparrow, John W. Shoemaker, Abe Hulsizer, and William 
Leslie. These men were taken to southern prisons, and after- 
ward exchanged. 

On the 1st of October the Battery moved toward Corinth, 
and on the 2d it passed through the town and halted for the 
night at a fort southwest of it. On the morning of the 3d it was 
ordered to take position near the Ch^walla Road, where it 
crossed the Memphis Railroad. From this place the Battery 
was ordered into position north of Corinth. About eleven 
o'clock, on the morning of the 4th, the rebel lines advanced. 
The Battery opened with shell, and one piece was disabled after 
the first fire, by a shell getting fast half way down. Two shells 
were fired by each of the other three pieces, and canister — 
doubled — was used to the direct front. The ground was favor- 
able for canister practice, and at each fire gaps of twenty, thirty, 
and forty feet wide were cut into the advancing columns. The 
Battery stopped three columns of rebels. Each piece was pour- 
ing out from eighteen to twenty rounds per minute, when the 
order was given to retire. The rebels had advanced on the 
right, and the Battery was without the support of a single mus- 
ket, right or left. The pintle-key of the third piece had to be 
tied to its place, and the corporal, while tying it, discovered that 
the sponge-bucket was left. He called out, ''Get the bucket. 
No. 2 ! " George S. Wright, a boy of eighteen, acting as No. 1, 
ran back towards the rebels, picked up the bucket when they 
were not more than twenty-five rods from him, and returned 
with it to the gun. 

As fast as the pieces were limbered they went off at a gal- 
lop. They were unlimbered east of the town and south of the 
Decatur Railroad, but only for a moment, when they were 
returned to a point about one hundred yards in rear of the former 



TENTH OHIO BATTERY: 161 

position. In a short time the enemy retired. The Battery lost 
only three men wounded. A number of horses were also 
wounded, including those belonging to Captain White and the 
bugler. It pursued the enemy as far as Ripley, and then 
returned to Corinth. 

In the latter part of October the Battery received forty mert 
from an Iowa brigade, but about twenty of them were returned. 
In November it moved to Grand Junction, and marched with 
the army into Mississippi, along the Mississippi Central Railroad. 

After the surrender of Holly Springs, the Battery returned 
to that point, and formed part of the garrison. It removed from 
there to Lafayette, and from Lafayette to Memphis On the 
21st of January it moved to Milliken's Bend, and from there to 
Lake Providence. In April it returned to Milliken's Bend, and 
'moved from there to Grand Gulf. 

On May the 14th, while the Tenth was at Grand Gulf^ 
General Dwight, of General Banks' army, arrived on a gunboat,, 
on his way to General Grant's headquarters — then near Black 
River. There being no cavalry at the post, Captain White was 
detailed with thirty men of the Battery to act as an escort to the 
general. They left Grand Gulf May 16th, and rode all night. 
• The battle of Champion Hills being in progress, they were un- 
able to reach General Grant's headquarters, and were compelled 
to remain on the road in their saddles until two o'clock in the 
morning of the 18th, without rations for themselves or forage 
for the horses. At six o'clock in the morning, when General 
McPherson's head-quarters were reached, the men were com- 
pletely exhausted, and the horses unfit for further travel. 

Later in the day the escort commenced its return to Grand 

Gulf, having supplied themselves with horses and mules taken 

from citizens. On its march through the woods the escort ran 

into a brigade of Pemberton's rebel army, that had been cut off 

from the main force. Captain White so maneuvered his men as 
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162 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

to make tlie rebels believe he had a large force of cavalry, and 
actually succeeded in capturing thirty-four rebels. On returning 
to camp some of the men of the escort were asleep in their 
s-iddles 

On the 13th of June the Battery reached Vicksburg, and on 
the 18th it was posted in Fort Ransom. On the next day one 
of the guns broke its axle, and another its stock, leaving but two 
serviceable pieces. On the night of the 19th Quartermaster 
McPherson, with the wagon-master and Artificer Chne, procured 
another carriage from near the rebel lines, cutting it out, as it 
were, under fire of the rebel guns. On the 20th artificers Cline 
and Wheeler, while under fire from the enemy's sharp shooters, 
repaired the disabled guns. 

The Battery remained in the fort until the latter part of 
June. It then moved to Big Black, and after the surrender of 
Vicksburg it marched to Jackson. As soon as it arrived it was 
ordered back to Champion Hills, to guard the communications. 
On the 28th of July the Battery entered Vicksburg. 

In August — of seventy two men present — only seventeen 
were reported for duty. The men were worn out with sickness 
and service. The well men did guard duty, took care of seventy 
horses and mules, went for forage and rations, hauled water, 
fixed shades, and at night cared for their sick comrades. 

The garrison went into winter quarters on the bluffs south 
of Vicksburg — one section was sent to Red Bone Church, 
twelve miles south of Vicksburg; the other put on duty at Halls 
Ferry Road. 

During the winter the Battery received about ninety re- 
cruits. Thirty two men out of fifty four, who were eligible, 
re-enlisted, and on the 8th of April, 1864, the Battery, with one 
hundred and fifty men for duty, left Vicksburg for Cairo. The 
Battery was attacked on its way up the river by a portion of 
Forrest's forces, but it used its guns effectually, and drove off 



TENTH OHIO BATTERY. 163 

the rebels. Fort Pillow was held by the enemy. The Battery 
returned to Memphis, and remained on duty there until the latter 
part of April, when it moved to Cairo. The veterans proceeded 
to Ohio and were furloughed. 

The Morgan raid through Kentucky prevented the veterans 
from joining their battery until the 23d of June. They were 
retained at Louisville, Kentucky. At Cairo the Battery received 
a new outfit. On the 9th of May it moved to Paducah, and on 
the 13th started up the Tennessee. On the morning of the l-lth 
it disembarked at Clifton, and on the 16th began the march to 
Acvvorth, Georgia. The distance was about five hundred miles. 
The march occupied twenty-four days, and the route lay through 
Pulaski, Huntsville, Decatur, Rome, and Kingston. The 
weather was very warm, but the Battery did not lose a man. 

At Acworth the Tenth was placed in the Fourth Division 
of the Seventeenth Army Corps. On the 10th of June it took 
position at the front, and with the exception of the Fourth of 
July, was engaged every day for a month, most of the time in 
front of Kennesaw Mountain, but most severely at Nickojack 
Creek. On the .12th of July it returned to Kennesaw, and after 
remaining a few days took position at Marietta, where it formed 
a part of the garrison until November. 

During Hood's march in October the Battery was ordered 
out frequently, but it was engaged only once. About the last 
of October the horses and mules were turned over, and the 
Battery was ordered to Nashville. About seven recruits were 
received from Ohio. On the 2d of November the Battery left 
Marietta, and after more than a week's detention at Chattanooga, 
it procured transportation, and arrived at Nashville on the 14th. 
It was posted at Camp -Barry, and about the middle of Novem- 
ber the majority of the men in the Battery were sent about thirty 
miles up the Cumberland to get timber for winter quarters. 
They did not return until the 1st of December. 



164 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

When Hood threatened Nashville the Battery was posted at 
Fort Gillen, but it was not called into action. About the last 
of December the Battery moved to Camp Barry, and erected 
wmter quarters. The men were armed with muskets, and for 
two months acted as infantry. 

On the 13th of March, 1865, the Fourth and Tenth Ohio 
batteries were consolidated, and sixty- four men were thus added 
to the Tenth, which retained its name and organization. The 
men from the Fourth were mostly Germans. About the 1st of 
April the Battery was ordered to East Tennessee, and after 
guarding the post of Sweetwater for two weeks, it was ordered 
to Loudon, where it remained until orders to muster out were 
received. 

The Battery was mustered out at Camp DL^inison on the 
17th of July, 1865, and paid off and discharged on the 21st. 
The names of tlie otificers were as follows: 

Captains — H. Berlace White, Francis Seaman, J. R. Grain. 

Lieutenants — W. F. Bardwell, Ambrose A. Blount, Ed- 
ward Groosekoff, W. L. Newcomb, Joseph B Gage, James E. 
Gilmore, George Kleder, Lanson Zane, Jarwes E. Boniicon, 
Samuel x\. Galbreath. 



TENTH OHIO BATTERY REUNION. 

Fro//i Xciiia Torchlight, October 6, jSSj. 

The gallant old Tenth Ohio Battery met . in reunion at 
Cedarville, Ohio, October 3d and 4th, to the number of thirty- 
two, and had indeed a pleasant time and a happy reunion. In 
the evening, October 3d, they partook of a grand supper — 
grandly prepared by the good citizens of Cedarville. The Cedar- 
ville Brass Band discoursed splendid music. The Urge hall — 



TENTH OHIO BATTERY. 165 

Mitchell's — was literally packed. After supper the exercises 
were as follows : 

1. Welcome address, by Professor Van Fossen. 

2. Response, by Comrade Greene. 

3. Letters were read from absent members by Lieutenant 
J. B. Gage; also a history of the Battery's part in the battle of 
Corinth. 

4. Resolutions and reading "Sheridan's Ride," and " A 
District School," by Comrade Greene. 

5. A short address by Comrade Ramsey. Mr. L wS. 
Owens, of the Seventy-fourth, was introduced, and was proceed- 
ing to make some remarks, when it was announced that Marshal 
Harris had been shot on the street, which produced so much 
excitement that further proceedings were dispensed with, and 
the assembly adjourned. 

A meeting was held in Firemen Hall, at 9:00 a. m , October 
4ih, when other business was transacted and other letters were 
read by Lieutenant J. B. Gage. Officers were then elected for 
the ensuing year, namely, all the former officers, with the addi- 
tion of Billy Williams as recording secretary. The members 
then repaired to the street, where a picture of the Battery was 
taken by Artist Biddle, of Xenia. At one o'clock the meeting 
re assembled, and transacted other business. A resolution was 
passed fixing the time for next meeting the first Wednesday in 
October, at West Liberty, Ohio. The meeting then adjourned. 

By request of members the roll was called, after which the 
iletters were r.ad by Lieutenant J. B. Gage, one from Lieutenant 
Mong, after which a resolution, by Lieutenant Gage, as fol- 
ows : 

That the members of the Tenth Ohio Battery, assembled at its second 
reunion, held at Cedarville, Ohio, October 3 and 4, 1883, regret that 
Lieutenant W. J. Mong could not be present at the reunion, and thank 
him for his letter and for the copy of the company's receipt for clothing 



166 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

forwarded by him, and extend to him a special invitation to be present at 
the next reunion. 

Resolved^ That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Lieutenant 
W. J. Mong, at Minerva, Stark County, Ohio. 

RESOLUTIONS. 

At a meeting of the Tenth Ohio Battery, held at Cedarville^ 
Ohio, October 3 and 4, 1883, the following preamble and resolu- 
tions were adopted : 

Whereas, The citizens of Cedarville — and especially the ladies 
thereof — have given to the members of the Tenth Ohio Batter.y, at its 
second reunion, held at Cedarville, Ohio, October 3 and 4, 1883, cordial 
and friendly greeting; therefore, be it 

Resolved, That we extend to them our heart-felt thanks, and to Miss 
Blake and Miss Hudson we are especially under obligations for the but- 
ton-hole bouquets, and also the pleasure of having them pinned on by 
such lovely young ladies. 

Whereas, Death has taken from our ranks Samuel A. Barr, John 
W. Shoemaker, Thomas Fryer, Fred Maurer, and James Worthington, 
friends and comrades of the war; be it 

Resolved, That we grieve in the death of these comrades, and extend 
to the families of the deceased our sincere sympathy in their loss. 

That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the families of each 
of the members who have passed to rest, and that it be published in the 
Cedarville Herald and Xenia Torchlight. 

MEMBERS PRESENT. 

Lieutenant J. B. Gage, Brooklyn, New York; William A. 
Byrd, Alconey, Miami County, Ohio; Reese Underwood, West 
Liberty, Ohio; J. B. Grain, Jamestown, Ohio; John W. Ran- 
dall, Guard, O. P.; Nathan Wike, Springfield, Ohio; George L. 
Johnston, La Fontaine, Indiana; Dinsmore Randall, Springfield,. 
Ohio; Samuel J. Knott, Springfield, Ohio; Walter A. Keith,^ 



TENTH OHIO BATTERY. 167 

West Liberty, Ohio; William Myers, Springfield, Ohio; Jacob 
M. Beemer, Cedarville, Ohio ; P. G. Clevell, Dayton, Ohio • 
William H. Elwell, Sprmgfield, Ohio; Samuel Galbreath, Cedar- 
ville, Ohio; G. N. Randall, Cedarville, Ohio; Frank Dillmore, 
Soldiers' Home, Dayton, Ohio ; Edward Spencer, Cedarville, 
Ohio; G. N. Shrods, Cedarville, Ohio; L. N. Luce, Mt. Etna, 
Huntington County, Indiana; C. N. Ramsey, Washington C. 
H., Ohio; Pellegro Leuchesey, Madison County, Ohio; John 
A. Mitchell, Cedarville, Ohio; James Judy, Bloomington, Fay- 
ette County, Ohio; George S. Wright, Mad River P. O., Clark 
County, Ohio; Joseph W. Randall, Cedarville, Ohio; O. V. 
Flora, Madison, Indiana; William K. Byrd, Xenia, Ohio; Jo- 
seph Cline, Cedarville, Ohio. 

Others were present who did not register their names. 



One Hundred and Fifty- Fourth 0, V. I. 



The One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volun- 
teer Infantry, National Guards, was formed by consolidating the 
twenty-sixth and sixtieth battalions of Ohio National Guards. 
It was organized at Camp Dennison, and was mustered into the 
service on the 9th of May, 1864, with an aggregate of eight 
hundred and forty-two men. Colonel, Robert Stevenson, As- 
sistant Surgeon, Leigh McClung, Quartermaster, A. L. Trader. 
Several of the line cfticers, non-commissioned officers, and many 
of the privates had seen service in other organizations. 

On the 12th of May the regiment proceeded, via Columbus 
and Bellaire, to New Creek, West Virginia, arriving on the 
evening of the 14th. The next day ~ in one of the most violent 
storms of the season — it laid out its camp and pitched its tents. 
On the 22d Company F was ordered to Piedmont, West Vir- 
ginia, where it remained until the regiment started for Ohio for 
muster-out. 

The One Hundred and Fifty-fourth performed guard, picket, 
and escort duty until the 29th of May, when one company 
moved to Youghiogheny Bridge, and the remaining eight com- 
panies to Greenland Gap. Scouting parties were out almost 
constantly, and on the 4th of June a detachment of the regiment 
had a skirmish with McNeil's battalion, near Moorfield, in which 
the rebels were defeated. 

About the 12th of June three hundred men from the One 
Hundred and Fifty- fourth, with a cavalry force, were engaged in 
a ten-day's scout. Skirmishing was frequent, but the enemy 



THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOURTH. 1(39 

kept SO securely in the mountains that only three rebels were 
captured in the ten days. On the 23d another scout — of one 
hundred men and a small force of cavalry — '.vas ordered- out, 
with three days' rations, but no enemy was discovered. 

On the Fourth of July the regiment feh back to New Creek, 
expecting an attack, but the enemy having retired it returned 
again to Greenland Gap, arriving on the 7th. Company H — 
until this time at Oakland— joined the regiment at New Creek, 
and returned with it to the Gap. On the 25th the regiment 
again fell back to New Creek, and Greenland Gap ceased to be 
held as a military post. 

On the 4th of August the rebels, under McCausland and 
Bradley Johnson, attacked the force at New Creek, but at night 
they were compelled to withdraw, leaving their killed and 
wounded on the field. 

On the 10th of August a detachment of the One Hundred 
and Fifty-fourth proceeded to Camp Chase, in charge of prison- 
ers, and remained there until the regiment returned to the state. 
On the evening of the 22d the regiment started for Ohio, arriv- 
ing at Camp Chase on the 27th, where it was mustered out of 
tlue service on the 1st of September, 1864, 



Fifty-Fourth 0. V. I 



Recruiting for this regiment began in the latter part of the 
summer of 1861, the place of rendezvous being Camp Dennison, 
where the regiment was organized and drilled during the fall and 
winter of 1861. The men composing this command were from 
the Qounties of Allen, Auglaize, Butler, Cuyahoga, Fayette, 
Greene, Hamilton, Logan, and Preble. 

On the 17th of February, 1862, the regiment went into the 
field with an aggregate of eight hundred and fifty men. The 
Fifty-fourth reached Paducah, Kentucky, February 20, 1862, 
and was assigned to a brigade commanded by General Sherman. 
On the 6th of March the comm.and ascended the Tennessee 
River, disembarked at Pittsburg Landing, and camped near 
Shiloh Church. On the 6th of April the regiment engaged in 
the battle of Pittsburg Landing, its position being on the extreme 
left of the army; but on the second day it was assigned a new 
position, near the center of the line. In the two days' fighting 
the regiment lost one hundred and ninety-eight men killed, 
wounded, and missing. On the 29th of April the regiment 
moved upon Corinth, skirmishing severely at Russell House, 
May 17th, and engaging in the movement upon the works at 
Corinth, May 31st. 

On the morning of the evacuation the Fifty-fourth was 
among the first organized bodies of troops to enter the town. 
The regimental colors were unfurled from a public building, and 
the regiment was designated to perform provost duty — the com- 
manding officer of the regiment being appointed commandant of 



THE FIFTY FOURTH. 171 

the post of Corinth. The regiment moved with the army to 
La Grange, Tennessee, and from there to Holly Springs, Missis- 
sippi, and then returned to Corinth. Soon after it again marched 
to Holly Springs ; from there to Moscow, Tennessee, and thence 
to Memphis, where it arrived July 21, 1862. 

During the summer the regiment was engaged in several 
short expeditions, and on the 26th of November it moved with 
the army toward Jackson, Mississippi, by way of Holly Springs. 
The regiment soon returned to Memphis, and with a portion of 
the army under General Sherman moved down the Mississippi,, 
and went into position before the enemy's lines at Chickasaw 
Bayou. It was engaged in the assault on the rebel works De- 
cember 28th and 29th, with a loss of twenty men killed and 
wounded. On the 1st of January, 1863, the regiment withdrew, 
ascended the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers, and engaged in 
.the assault and capture of Arkansas Post. The Fifty-fourth 
again descended the Mississippi River, and disembarked at 
Young's Point, Louisiana. Here it was employed in digging a 
canal, and in other demonstrations connected with the Vicks- 
burg campaign, which resulted in the rescue of the fleet of gun- 
boats which was about to be abandoned and destroyed. 

On the 6th of May the regiment began its march to the rear 
of Vicksburg, by way of Grand Gulf, and was engaged in the- 
battles of Champion Hills and Black Ridge. It was engaged in- 
a general assault on the enemy's works in the rear of Vicksburg, 
on the 19th and 22d of June, losing in the engagements forty- 
seven killed and wounded. It was continually in skirmishing 
and fatigue duty during the siege of Vicksburg, except for six 
days, which were consumed in a march of observation toward 
Jackson, Mississippi. 

After the fall of Vicksburg the Fifty-fourth moved with the- 
army upon Jackson, Mississippi, and was constantly engaged in 
skirmishing from the 9th to the 14th of July. After the capture- 



172 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

of Jackson the regiment returned to Vicksbiirg, and remained 
until October, 1863, when, forming a part of the Fifteenth Army 
Corps, it ascended the Mississippi River to Memphis, and from 
there proceeded to Chattanooga. It was engaged in the battle 
•of Missionary Ridge, November 26th, and the next day marched 
to the reHef of the garrison at Knoxville, Tennessee. It pursued 
the enemy's wagon-train from Knoxville through the south-east- 
ern portion of Tennessee, and a short distance into North Caro- 
lina, and then returned to Chattanooga, and moved thence to 
Larkinsville, Alabama, where it went into winter quarters, Jan- 
uary 12, 1864. 

The regiment was mustered into the service as a veteran 
organization on the 22d of January, and at once started to Ohio 
on furlough. It returned to camp in April, with an addition of 
two hundred recruits, and entered on the Atlanta campaign, on 
the 1st of May. It participated in a general engagement at 
Rtsaca and Dallas, and in a severe skirmish at New Hope 
Church, June 6th and 7ih. It was in the general assault upon 
Kennesaw Mountain, June 27th, losing twenty-eight killed and 
wounded ; was engaged in a severe skirmish at Nickojick Creek, 
July 3d, losing thirteen killed and wounded, and was in a battle 
on the east side of Atlanta, July 21st and 22d, sustaining a loss 
of ninety four killed, wounded, and missing The Fifty- fourth 
lost eight men killed and wounded at Ezra Chapel, on the 28th 
of July, and from the 29th of July to the 27lh of August it was 
almost continually engaged in skirmishing before tlie works of 
Atlanta. It was in a heavy skirmish at Jonesboro, August 30th, 
and in a general action at the sa.aie place the two days imme- 
diately following. 

After resting a few weeks in camp near Atlanta, the regi- 
ment started in pursuit of Hood, and followed him within sixty 
miles of Chattanooga, and from there to Gadsden, Alabama, 
wh-cn it returned to Atlanta, and prepared for the march to 



THE FIFTY-FOURTH. 173"- 

Savannah. The Fifty fourth started on that wonderful march on 
the 15th of November, and on the 15th of December was en- 
gaged in the assault and capture of Fort McAUister, near Savan- 
nah. The regiment assisted in tlie destruction of the Gulf 
Railroad, toward the Altamaha River, and on the 7th of January, 
18(35, marched into Savannah. 

After a rest of several weeks it moved with the army on the 
march through the Carolinas, skirmishing at the crossing of the 
South Edisto and North Edisto rivers, on the 10th and 12th of 
February, respectively. It was closely engaged in the vicinity of 
Columbia, and participated in its last battle at Bentonsville, 
North Carolina, March 21, 1865. The regiment marched to 
Richmond, Virginia, and from there to Washington City, where 
it took part in the grand review of the Western Army. On the 
2d of June it was transported by railroad and steamboat to 
Louisville, Kentucky, and after remaining two weeks there it 
proceeded to Little Rock, Arkansas, and there performed gar- 
rison duty until August 15, 18G5, when it was mustered out. 

The regiment returned to Camp Dennison, Ohio, where it 
received final pay, and was disbanded on the 24th of August, 
18{>5. The aggregate strength of the regiment at muster-out was 
two hundred and tifty five — twenty four officers, and two hun- 
dred and thirty -one men. It marched during its term of service 
a distance of three thousand six hundred and eighty-two miles, 
participated in four sieges, ninety-seven skirmishes, fifteen gen- 
eral engagements, and sustained a loss of five hundred and six 
men killed, wounded, and missing. 



Seventeenth 0. V. I. 



Dr. John Turnbull, of Bellbrook, Ohio, deserves a notice 
•in this work. He enlisted as private in Company A, Seventeenth 
Regiment, O. V. I., April, 1861; served four months in said 
regiment, and afterward as acting assistant surgeon of the Sixty- 
fifth Regiment, O. V. I., nearly one year; and lastly as assistant 
■surgeon of the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment, O. V. I. 



Thirty-Fomth 0. V. I. 



This regiment was organized at Camp Lucas, Clermont 
County — Company F being largely composed of men from 
Greene County, therefore I give it a place in this work — during 
the months of July and August, 1861, the first detachment enter- 
ing camp July 15ih, and the first regular companies, under 
captains Broadwell and Evans, July 21st. 

On the morning of September 1st it moved to Camp Denni- 
son, and was there prepared for the field, adopting as its uni- 
form — a license allowable at the early period of the war — a 
light-blue Zouave dress. In compliment to their colonel the 
name of " Piatt Zouaves" was adopted. 

The regiment left Camp Dennison on the 15th of Septem- 
ber, 1861, for western Virginia, with full ranks, and arrived at 
Camp Enyart, on the Kanawha River, on the 20th of the same 
month. On the 25th it fought its first battle, in a gap near 
Chapmanville, Logan County, Virginia, whipping a Virginia 
regiment, inflicting considerable loss to the rebels in men, and 
badly wounding their commander, Colonel Davis. The loss of 
the Thirty fourth was one killed and eight wounded. During 
the remainder of the autumn the regiment was engaged in the 
arduous duty o( guarding the rear of General Rosencranz' army, 
and the counties of Cabell, Putnam, Mason, Wayne, and Logan 
were kept pretty free from guerrillas, by continual scouting. 

In March, 1862, the Thirty-fourth was ordered to Gauley 
Bridge, to join General Cox in his demonstration on the Virginia 
and Tennessee R lilroad. The regiment participated in the battle 



176 green'e county in the war. 

of Princeton, on the 17th and 18th of May, losing several men. 
Lieutenant Peck and Peters were wounded, and Captain O. P. 
Evans taken prisoner. Humphrey Marshall commanded the 
rebels. 

When General Cox was ordered to join General McClellan, 
in August, 1862, there \vere six regiments left to guard the 
Kanawha Valley. The Thirty-fourth and Thirty seventh held 
the outposts at Fayette ville, where, on the morning of September 
10th, they were attacked by a rebel force under General Loring, 
ten thousand strong. With the aid of breastworks, previously 
constructed by General Sc amnion, two two-pound brass field- 
pieces, and four six-pound mountain howitzers, the position was 
held until midnight, when the place was evacuated. Part of 
the time the Thirty-fourth was in the open field, and repeatedly 
charged on the enemy. Its loss was necessarily heavy. Of six 
companies engaged — the other four, under Major Franklin, 
being on a scout — the loss was one hundred and thirty, or 
fully one third. One half of the officers were either killed or 
wounded. Cutting their way out under a heavy fire, the national 
troops fell back towards the Kanawha River, made a stand at 
Cotton Mountain the next day, and Charleston on the 12th, 
where a severe engagement took place. From this point the 
entire Federal force fell back to Point Pleasant, leaving the 
entire valley in the hands of rebels. In October General Cox 
returned with his command, when another advance was made, 
and the valley regained. From this time, until May, 1863, 
nothing of moment occurred to vary the monotony of garrison 
duty. During May the regiment was furnished with horses, and 
transformed into mounted rifles. 

On the 13th of July, 1863, an expedition, consisting of the 
Thirty-fourth, two companies of the First, and seven companies 
of the Second Virginia Cavalry, under command of Colonel 
Toland, made a demonstration on the Virginia and Tennessee 



THE THIRTY FOURTH. 177 

Railroad, striking it on the evening of the 18th, at Wytheville. 
A desperate fight ensued, the enemy occupying the house, barns, 
yards, etc., on a sh'ght elevation to the rear of the town. About 
dark the national forces succeeded in capturing the enemy's 
artillery, and driving him in all directions. Captain Delaney, 
commanding First Virginia, was killed, and Colonel Powell, 
Second Virginia, badly wounded. The Thirty- fourth Ohio lost 
four killed — including Colonel Toland — thirteen wounded, and 
thirty three missing. Colonel Toland was shot from a window 
of a house in his immediate vicinity, while seated on his horse, 
engaged in giving orders, surrounded by a few of his staff. The 
ball passed through his left breast. The colonel did not fall from 
his horse, but caught the mane with his right hand, when his 
orderly, who was about fifty yards distant from him, ran and 
caught him before he had time to reach the ground. With his 
■ last breath he requested that his horse and sword be sent to his 
mother. 

The brigade left Camp Piatt with nearly one thousand men ; 
marched six hundred and fifty two miles in eleven days, travers- 
ing some of the highest mountains in West Virginia, capturing 
over two hundred and fifty horses, and three hundred and sixty 
prisoners, two pieces of artillery, and a large amount of com- 
mission stores ; destroyed between three and five thousand stand 
of arms, a bridge of importance, and partially burned one of 
the wealthiest cities in Virginia Upon the fall of Colonel 
Toland, the command devolved upon Lieutenant Colonel Frank- 
lin, who decided on a retrograde movement. This he found it 
difficult to execute, from the fact that the rebel General Mc- 
Causland had blockaded the roads in the most effectual manner. 
For several days the command was moving in the mountains, 
destitute of food for themselves or fodder for their horses, and 
continually harrassed by rebel cavalry. On the day previous to 
the arrival of the regiment at Wytheville, Company C, acting as 

12 



178 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

rear guard, was attacked by a superior force of rebel cavalry. 
A number were killed and wounded, and Captain Cutler and 
fifteen men were taken prisoners. Several expeditions, under 
General Diiffie — who had assumed command of the Kanawha 
Cavalry — to l>ewisburg and vicinity, completed this years cam- 
paign. 

[•1 January, 1804, about two thirds of the regiment re- 
enlisted as veterans. On the 29Lh of April, 18G4, the regiment 
was divided into two detachments. The mounted portion was 
to operate with the cavalry, under General Averill ; the dis- 
mounted with the Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in Gen- 
eral Crook's division of infantry. On the 1st of May, 1864. the 
second expedition, for the destruction of the Virginia and Ten- 
nessee Railroad, left Charleston. On the 9th the cavalry arrived 
at Wytheville, encountered the rebels under General Morgan, 
were repulsed, and were compelled to fall back with considerable 
loss. The infantry under General Crook were more successful. 
On the same day that Averill was defeated Crook achieved a 
solid victory over General Jenkins, at Cloyd Mountain, near 
D\iblin Depot, which was captured the same evening. 

On the day following the enemy was again encountered and 
defeated at the railroad bridge, over New River, and the bridge 
totally destroyed. P'rom this point the command returned to 
Meadow Bluffs, crossing Salt Pond, and Peters Mountains, and 
the Greenbrier River, arriving at their destination on the 19th of 
May, completing a distance of four hundred miles marched 
during the month. From Meadow Bluffs the Thirty fourth 
started to join General Hunter, at Staunton, in the Shenandoah 
Valley, passing through White Sulphur Springs, Callahan's 
Stand, and crossing Panther Gap Mountain, where a skirmish 
ensued. 

On the oth of June the regiment reached Goshen, on the 
Virginia Central Railroad, and skirmished with a body of cav- 



THE THIRTY-FOURTH. 179 

airy at Cow Pasture River. The day after the rebels were met 
at Buffalo Gap, in a position secure from attack, but General 
Hayes' brigade succeeded in flanking and driving them out of it. 
Staunton was reached on the 8ih of June, where the Thirty- 
fourth made its final preparations to join General Hunter on his 
disastrous raid to Lynchburg. General Hunter, now re enforced 
by Generals Crook, Averill, and Duffie, left Staunton on the 
9th, and passing through Brownsburg reached Lexington on the 
11th. The evening of the 14i]i found the regiment at Buckhan- 
non, on the James River, at which point a few shots were 
exchanged w th a small rebel force that had been driven out of 
Lexington. Crossing the Blue Ridge, near the Peaks of Otter, 
the town of Liberty was reached on the IGth, when anolhtr 
skirmish occurred. From this i)oint General Crook's command, 
-'.vith the dismounted members of the Thirty-fourth, were sent on 
a flanking expedition across the James, for the purpose of attack 
ing Lynchburg in the rear, the cavalry on the left to make a 
diversion in their favor. The attack was made late in the after- 
noon of the 18th of June, was partly successful, and in the 
opini(m of the Thirty-fourth, would haVe been entirely so had 
General Crook been allowed to occupy the city that night, 
according to his wish, but orders from his superior officers for- 
bade it. The enemy were re-enlorced that night by about twenly 
thousand men, from the vicinity of Richmond, under the com- 
mand of General Early, which, of course, so strengthened the 
city that it was impossible, with the small and illy-a])pointed 
force under General Hunter, to cope with the rebels The 
situation was fully developed early the next morning, by a fierce 
cannonade from the rebels, which was promptly replied to bv. 
the natioiial forces. In the afternoon an engagement occurred 
in which the Thirty-fourth severely suffered. The retreat of the 
national forces commenced at dark, on the 19th of June. The 
rear, heavily pressed by the pursuing enemy, the second skirmish 



180 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

occurred at Liberty. At Salem, on the 21st, while the artillery 
of Hunter's comnr.and was passing through a narrow defile, 
totally unsupported, a party of rebels made a sudden descent 
from the hills, and dispersing the drivers and gunners, com- 
menced the work of destruction by shooting horses, cutting 
spokes and harness, and blowing up caissons. The mounted 
portion of the Thirty-fourth being a few miles in the rear, hurried 
to the scene of action, dismounted, and with Lieutenant Colonel 
Shaw as their leader, encountered the rebels. Alter a sharj) 
fight the rebels were driven off, and the artillery regained. The 
retreat was continued. Big and Little Sewell mountains were 
crossed, and Charleston reached on the 1st of July, where the 
exhausted, ragged, and starved troops were permitted to rest. 
Thus ended this most disastrous expedition, 'i'he constant skir- 
mishing, the starved bodies, and blistered feet of those who p.ir- 
ticipated in it, made " Hunter's retreat from Lynchburg' an 
event long to be remembered. 

The Thirty-fourth lay at Charleston on the 10th of July, 
when it embarked on transports for Parkersburg. A da}' or two 
previous to this move the whole regiment was dismounted, and 
horses and equipments turned over to the cavalry. From 
Parkersburg the regiment moved by rail to Martinsburg, arriving 
there on the 14th of July, 18(14. The regiment was now in the 
Shenandoah Valley. On the 20th of July, while General Crook, 
' with his main force and the Sixth and Nineteenth corps were 
pressing Early back on Winchester, (General Duval's brigade, of 
which the Thirty-fourth was a part, attempted to occu])y the 
place in advance of the rebels, by a forced march from Martins- 
burg. Early, anticipating the movement, had sent f rvvard his 
old division, under General Ramseur, to check it. The national 
force, only twelve hundred strong, met and attacked the rebels 
two miles from Winchester, comi)Ielely routing them, caj)turing 
their artillery, and killing and wounding all their brigade conv 



THE THIRTY-FOURTH. 181 

manders. The loss of the Thirty-fourth was ten killed and 
twenty wounded. 

Four days later occurred the fourth battle of \Vinchester, in 
which General Early, taking advantage of the absence of the 
Sixth and Nineteenth corps, overwhelmed General Crook — the 
latter^ however, effecting an orderly retreat with the loss of only 
a (ew wagons. In this battle General Duval's brigade had the 
honor of bringing up the rear, and the Thirty-fourth suffered 
severely, losing their commander, Lieutenant Colonel Shaw, a 
cool, determined soldier and Christian. He was struck in the 
abdomen by a musket-ball, and was borne from the field by a 
[e\v faithful men of his regiment, placed in an ambulance, and 
carried eleven miles distant, to a place called Bunker Hill, where 
he died. His last words were, "Welcome, welcome death!" 
Captain G. W. McKay was wounded, about the same tmie, in 
the leg, and would have fallen into the hands of the enemy, but 
for the heroic devotions of some of his men, who carried him on 
a litter, fifteen miles, to Sandy Hook, Maryland, where he died. 
The command of the regiment devolved upon Captain S. R. S. 
West, who fully sustained his reputation as a brave and gallant 
officer. 

The next day, July 25th. another stand was made at Mar- 
ti nsburg, the 'J'hirty- fourth being the last regiment to leave the 
field, which it did under a galling fire. The time of the regi- 
ment, between the 25th of July and the 3d of September, was 
occupied as follows : July 26th, forded the Potomac at Wil- 
liamsport; 27th, marched to Sandy Hook, Maryland, opposite 
Harper's Ferry; 28th, crossed the Potomac at Halltown ; 30th, 
re-crossed to Sandy Hook ; 31st, marched through Middletpwn, 
towards Pennsylvania state line. August 1st, continued the 
march to Wolfville, Maryland; 3d, returned by same road to 
Frederick City, Maryland, and encamped on the Monocacy ; 



1S2 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

Qth, returned to Harper's Ferry ; 8ih, re-crossed the Potomac, - 
and moved in the direction of Halltown; 10th, reached Berry- 
ville, Virginia; 11th, marched in hne of battle in the direction 
of Port Royal — heavy skirmishing with Early, who was falling 
back on Fishers Hill; 12th, reached Cedar Creek, found the, 
enemy had burned the bridge, and was intrenched on the south' 
bank of the stream. The Thirty fourth lay here until the even 
ing of the 17th, skirmishing heavily in the meantime It then 
fell back, marcliing all night, passing through Winchester, and 
camping at Berryville early next morning. 

The 20th of August found the Thirty-fourth at Charlestown, 
with the enemy close in its rear. In the expectation of an at- 
tack breastworks were thrown up, but after wailing in vain until 
ten o'clock at night, the regiment fell back to Halltown. The 
enemy still followed, and taking a position in the immediate front 
of the regiment, heavy skirmishing ensued until the 27th, when 
they withdrew, to demonstrate on the upper Potomac. 

On the day following the Thirty fourth again occupied 
Charlestown, where the regimental officers were busily engaged 
making up the necessary papers for discharge of the non-veter- 
ans, who, on the morning of the 3d of September, proceeded tO' 
Columbus, Ohio, in charge of Captain West During the few 
months previous to this time the Thirty fourth had been largely 
re-enforced by new recruits. Counting the veterans and the men 
of 1862 It still numbered between four and five hundred, present 
and absent. On the evening of the day on which the non- 
veterans left, the regiment particii)ated in the battle of Berry- 
ville ; the non-veterans were near enough to hear the booming of 
cannon. The enemy fell back to Winchester and Bunker Hill. 
The Thirty-fourth marched to Summit Point, and lay in camp 
until the morning of the 19th of September, the day on which 
occurred Sheridan's famous battle of Winchester, it being the 



THE THIRTY-FOURTH. 183 

third time the regiment had fought over nearly the same ground. 
It suffered terribly that day, the color guard having no less than 
six men, in quick succession, killed and wounded, while carry- 
ing the flag. It was finally brought through safe by George 
Rynals, of Company A. All know the result of that glorious 
battle, and remember Sheridan's celebrated dispatch, commenc- 
ing, "I am moving up the valley to-night." In accordance 
with this announcement, the next evening found the regiment at 
Cedar Creek, where it lay until the 22d, when occurred the bat- 
tle of Fishers Hill. Here, again, by the excellent management 
of General George Crook, the enemy was successfully flanked, 
which resulted in his total rout and the capture of all his artillery. 
The loss of the Thirty-fourth, in the last two engagements, was 
sixty one killed. 

The national forces followed the retreating and demoralized 
enemy to Harrisonburg, where they lay until the 6th of October. 
In the meantime the cavalry were busily engaged in burning 
barns filled with grain, driving in stock of all kinds, and other- 
wise rendering the valley untenable as a base of supplies — liter- 
ally fulfilling Grant's order to Sheridan, to render it so desolate 
and provisionless that a "crow, in passiiig over it, would be 
compelled to carry his rations with him." 

By the 6th, the work of devastation was completed, and 
the national army again fell back to Cedar Creek, while the 
enemy, following at a respectful distance, once more resumed 
his old position at Fishers Hill. Of General Early's desperate 
attempt to regain his lost laurels on the 19th' of October, and of 
his partial success on the morning of "Sheridan's ride " to the 
scene of action, and the irretrievable disaster of the rebels in 
the afternoon, much has been said and sung , The brunt of the 
morning's surprise and attack fell on the left flank, composed of 
General Crook's corps, which, with the Nineteenth Corps, occu- 



18-i GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

pying the center of the Hne, was badly shattered. The Sixth 
Corps, on the right, had time to fall back in good order. The 
troops were rallied near Middletown, from whence the final 
advance was made which swept everything before it. It is 
sufficient to say that the day was won. 

The evening before the battle the regiment, under command 
of Lieutenant Colonel L. Furney, was sent on picket. In the 
morning, before dawn, when the surprise occurred, the colonel 
and eighteen of his men were taken prisoners. The colonel 
escaped at Mount Jackson, and joined his command a few days 
afterward. The loss of the Thirty-fourth in this affair was two 
killed, twelve wounded, and eighteen prisoners. From this 
time until the latter part of December, 18G4, the regiment lay in 
the neighborhood of Kernstown, when it marched to Opequan 
Crossing, and from tlience to Martinsburg. 

On the evening of the 22d of December, as the regiment 
was leaving iMartinsburg, on its way to Webster, by rail, the 
train on which it was being transported came in collision with 
one loaded with coal, killing two men and wounding fourteen. 
It reached Webster on the 25th, and Beverly on the 28th. 

On the 11th of January, 1865, the post of Beverly, garri- 
soned by the Thirty-fourth — which by this time was reduced to 
three hundred men present for duty — and the dismounted por- 
tion of the Eighth Ohio Cavalry, was attacked by the enemy, 
under the command of General Rosser. So secret and sudden 
was the attack — no alarm whatever being given until the enemy 
were in the quarters — that resistance was out of the question, 
and nearly every man was at one time a prisoner, though sub- 
sequently a great many escaped, favored by the darkness and 
intense excitement of the occasion. Colonel Youart, of the 
Eighth, commanding the post, and Colonel Furney, were both 
-captured, but afterward escaped. The survivors of this unfortu- 



THE THIRTY FOURTH. 



185 



nate and disgraceful affair fell back to Phillippi, and from thence 
were ordered to Cumberland, Maryland, where they were con- 
solidated with the Thirty sixth Ohio — General Crook's old 
regiment — commanded by Colonel H. F. Duval. 

The union of the separate organizations dates from the 22d 
of February, 1865, in which the old Thirty- fourth loses its iden- 
tity, the coalition being known as the Thirty-sixth Ohio Veteran 
Volunteer Infantry. 



One Hundred and Kighty-Fouith O.V.I. 



This was one of the regiments raised under the last call 
of President Lincoln, to serve for one year. As there were 
Greene County soldiers in it, I give it a place. 

It was organized on the 21st of P^ebruary, 1865, at Camp 
Chase, and immediately after muster it received orders to move 
for Nashville without delay. It remained there a short time, 
doing garrison duty. From Nashville it proceeded to Chatta- 
nooga ; thence to Bridgeport, Alabama, which point it reached 
about the 21st of March, and was engaged in protecting an 
important railroad bridge over the Tennessee River. It also 
guarded the track of the railroad between Bridgeport and Chat- 
tanooga, a distance of about thirty miles. In the performance 
of this duty, detachments of the regiment stationed in the block- 
houses and forts along the road had frequent encounters with 
rebel guerrillas and squads of rebel cavalry. A number of 
prisoners were taken, at the expense or some few casualties. 

On the 25th of July the One Hundred and Eighty-fourth 
was ordered to Edgefield, for garrison duty, and remained at 
that place until it was mustered out of service on the 20th of 
September. It at once proceeded, under orders, to Camp 
Chase, Ohio, and on the 27th of September, 1865, the men 
were paid and discharged. 

The One Hundred and Eighty-fourth, like the majority of 
the one-year's regiments, was composed of excellent material — 



ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOURTH. 187 

the most of the men having seen service. Although tlie regi- 
ment did not participate in any general engagement, yet it is 
fair to presume that had they been called on to fight, they would 
have acquitted themselves with bravery and distinction. 



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193 



Captain Robert Hunter, First Lieut. John N, Haynes. 

SERGEANTS. 



Geniah F. St. John, 
George H. Cullumber, 
Lisbon Lucas. 



Isaac N. Pickering, 
Patrick IL Sudduth, 



CORPORALS. 



Charles Humler, 
Jesse Curry, 
William L. Ford, 
James Hulzler, 



Levi Beebe, 
Hezekiah F. Evans, 
Isaac N. Quinn, 
Leroy Clemons. 



TRANSFERRED. 



Corporal Walter S. Schull, 
John Rose, 
Richard Brady, 
William Sesler, 
Horace Ballard, 
Alfred Dean, 
Michael McManah, 
Samuel IL Brouse, 
Isaac Blocher, 
Alexander W^althal, 
Edward Jordan-, 
James A. Smith, 
Tames Cummins. 



Weslty Thomas, 
Artemus Henderson, 
Henry Hopping. 
George Barringer, 
David Wilson, 
Samuel Calhoun, 
Henry Turner, 
Robert Walthal, 
John H. Haughey, 
Henry H. Todd, 
Philander Mahin, 
Benjamin F. Shickley, 



DEATHS. 



First Lieut. Clinton W. Strong, 
Corporal Joseph R. Carper, 
Corporal Isaac J. Smith, 



W. H. Griffith, 
James Shirk, 
Joseph H. Crow, 



194 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



Corporal George Hutson, 
Jacob Bushart, 
Wiatt H. Jones, 
Philip Harness, 
Palmer Martin, 
Charles M. Wilson. 



David T. Ford, 
Lemuel H. Sires, 
Robert M. Atkinson, 
Henry Haynes, 
J. C. Chalmers, 



DISCHARGED. 



Sergeant Felix P. Iman, 
Corporal Thomas Moon, 
John W. James, 
John M. Syphers, 
Peter Shickley, 
Silas B. Shaner, 
Joseph M. Baker, 
Charles N. Smith, 
x\lbert Wickersham, 
William J. Loy, 
George Shaner, 
Captain Thomas C. Bell, 
Captain William McGinniss, 
Captain John M. McMillan, 
Barney Walters, 
David Ford, 
Daniel J. Browder. 
Philip A. Iman, 
George W. Harness, 
Wil iam Dedrick, 



Gustave Humler. 

David A. Johnson, 

Michael Sheely, 

Jacob Shirk, 

J, C. Reeder, 

Barkly T. Baily, 

John L. Woods, 

E. L. Rife, 

William H'avey, 

Joseph Hyde, 

Bernard McDaniel, 

First Lieut. Thomas H. Adams, 

Cornelius Perkins, 

Macy Beason, 

Joseph Orfman, 

Daniel D. Buckles, 

James A. Povv^ers, 

Joseph C. Wilkerson, 

George Bowermaster, 

Samuel Barnes. 



DISCHARGED BY EXPIRATION OF SERVICE. 



Eli Dean, 

Thomas Donaldson, 
John Dodson, 
Cieorge W. Boop, 
Marvey A. Miller, 
Robert \. Miller, 



William 11. Hopping, 
Martin V. Lucas, 
James McBride, 
Henry H. Long, 
Lawrence Sanders, 
Samuel H. Zartman, 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 195 

Samuel Schooley, Jehu More, 

William H. Ford, John L. Glotfelter, 

Jacob Neal, David B. Tiffany, 

Jerry B. Shickley, William R. Baker. 

VETERANS. 

Frank M. Bayless, Nathaniel Rife, 

William Brown, Sylvester Wilson, 
Francis Bryan. 

THREE-YEAR RECRUITS. 

Samuel T. Baker, Philip M. Fudge, 

Thomas D. Bone, William P. Fulton, 

Adam Bain, Garrett Fowler, 

Charles Carrol, Enos Fisher, 

John M. Crambles, Laban Glass, 

William Dawson, , Anderson J. Gulhire, 
Jenkins Evans. 

TRANSFERRED. 

First Sergeant Jos. H. Ballard, George Johnston, 

Sergeant Raper A. Sharp, James R. Milner, 

Sergeant Thomas C. Hook, Matthew Osborn, 

Sergeant James W, Zartman, John W. Smith, 

Sergeant Asa Mahin, William Shirk, 

Sergeant John A. Quinn, George Stewart, 

Sergeant James R. Hayslett, Elijah C. Ward, 

David A. Guthrie, Valentine Wolf, 

William P. Green, Theodore Wells, 
Benjamin F. Gilbert. 

ONE-YEAR RECRUITS. 

Dennison Ballard, Francis Johnson, 

William Downing, Wilson St. John. 



196 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



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Captain Stephen A. Basford, 
First Lieut. Frank I. Tedford. 



Second Lieut Richard H. King^ 



William L. Taylor, 
Perry A. Weaver, 
James McCann. 



SERGEANTS. 



Thomas Giff, 
John Scott, 



CORPORALS. 



Charles King, 
John S. Watts, 
Daniel H. Gist, 
James H. Iliff, 



Coleman Heaton, 
David M. Reeves, 
William Gano, 
Edwin Sweet, 
Musician — Jasper Anthony. 



PRIVATES. 



William Anderson, 
Robert Arnett, * 
Enoch P. Arnett, 
Joshua E. Arnett, 
Charles F. Bull, 
Alfred O. K. Bennett, 
William L. Bone, 
James A. Bone, 
Moses Bone, 
W^illiam R. Baker, 
Thomas Bosh, 
James A. Blessing, 
John IL Bolan, 
Martin Bloom, 
James L. Bottsford, 
Lemuel Cline, 



Ephraim Dickerson, 
Patrick Davis, 
James Elam, 
Stephen Faulkner, 
Thomas Faulkner, 
William Fisher, 
Thomas Grindle, 
John Glassinger, ■ 
William Gano, 
Thomas Gifife, 
William Gordon,- 
Daniel IL Gist, 
George H. Hoffman, 
Coleman Heaton, 
Euclid Harris, 
Eli Houston, 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 



197 



David B. Cline, 
John M. Clark, 
William Campbell, 
Wooly Combs, 
Abraham Carl, 
Charles Cammer, 
Austin Lyman, 
Horace B. Larkin, 
Charles Lucas, 
James McCann, 
Samuel Mulford, 
Masur Martin, 
Wilson McFarland, 
Patrick McNary, 
Michael Oswold, 
Ira S. Owens, 
Michael Powers, 
William A. Powers, 
Alexander Pepper, 
William H. Pratt, 
Franklin Pratt, 
Marion Ryan, 
David M, Reeves, 
William S. Reeves, 
William Richardson, 
John Shane, 
John Scott, 
William Roberts. 



James B, Iliff, 
John Gowdy, 
Addison Jones, 
John Kilpatrick, 
Richard H. King, 
Samuel Kyle, 
Jesse Severs, 
Edwin Sweet, 
John Starr, 
William A. Smith, 
Lewis Starr, 
John A. Sciss, 
David Stipe, 
James M. Smith, 
Vinton C. Smith, 
William L. Taylor, 
Arthur Truman, 
Charles Ulry, 
John S. Watts, 
Perry A. Weaver, 
John F. Walton, 
Jacob Wildermott, 
James Whalen, 
Joseph Williams, 
.William Zellers, 
Charles Shambaugh, 
John Elliott, 
Jeremiah Fagerty. 



COJVIPA^NY C. 



'Captain John Q. Hutchison, First Lieut. Wm. C. Galloway. 

SERGEANTS. 



John W. Hedges, 
John Norwood, 
Edward H. W^right. 



William Baker, 
Jonathan Wood, 



198 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



CORPORALS. 



George Kempher, 
Franklin McGinnis, 
Benjamin Crossey, 
William L. Wright, 



Charles Holsman, 
Ira S. Owens, 
James H, Johnston, 
Merritt R. Owens, 



Musician — William Keinborts. 



PRIVATES. 



John J. Allison, 
James Archibald, 
George T. Copeland, 
George W. Duftield, 
James Handlon, 
Hiram Hooten, 
Matthew H. Hutchison, 
Alexander Jones, 
Samuel Jones, 
Michael Jones, 
Samuel Kildow, 
James Lucas, 
James Lynch. 



John Long, 
Simeon H. ALiUen, 
Columbus McDonald,- 
James Penrod, 
Thomas Price, 
Joel Perkins, 
Clinton Randolph, 
John A. Seldomridge, 
Benjamin Smith, 
John L. Thorn, 
Daniel Teer, 
Henry Wetlers, 



TRANSFERRED. 



First Serg't Edward S. Barnett, 

Corporal Robert Gossard, 

Isaac X. Laughhead, 

William McDonald, 

John A. Brown, 

Thomas Burney, 

David Perkins, 

Ewell P. Drake, 

James Rodgers, 

Henry Simpson, 

Ebenezer Turner. 



Calvin Curl, 
Mills Conwell, 
Joseph Clemens, 
William Evans, 
William Gano, 
John W. Devoe, 
Jeremiah Williams, 
John Coren, 
Edward Clark, 
Aseph Hollingsworth. 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 



199 



DISCHARGED. 



Captain Samuel T. Owens, 
Captain William F. Armstionc:, 
Second Lieut. Robt. Stevenson, 
Second Lieut. John I. Barrows, 
Second Lieut. William Baldwin, 
Corporal Edward R. Bennett, 
Corporal Abraham Cosier, 
William Anderson, 
William L. Beason, 
James M. Howard, 
James W. Dehaven, 
Edward W, Johnson, 
John G. Brewer, 
Patrick W. McLaughlin. 



Joseph J, Baldwin, 
Elijah C. Humphrey, 
Absolom Brandon, 
James A. Brown > 
Mercer Beason, 
Charles M. Wolf, 
James Allison, 
Chancy White, 
James G. Stevenson, 
Charles Owens, 
Henry Forbes, 
George W. Seldomridge, 
Barton Chaney, 



DISCHARGED BY EXPIRATION OF SERVICE. 



Sergeant John M. Smalley, 
Corporal John H. McPherson, 
Corporal George G. Sargeant, 
Samuel W. Collins, 
Smith A. Stow, 
Joseph H. Clemens, 
John T. Reed, 
James B. Marshall, 



James Sheffield, 
Elias Vickers, 
Creighton Erwin, 
Philip Tracy, 
Alfred Erwin, 
Samuel T. Miller, 
William Stewart, 
Thomas Bcthard. 



DEATHS. 



Corporal James H. Moore, 
Corporal John Alexander, 
Corporal Joseph Hedges, 
Corporal George Schenebly, 
Corporal John H. Forbes, 
Thomas Harp, 
John Hennessey, 
W^illiam Funderburg. 



Albert Harold, 
John A. Sweeny, 
David Seldomridge, 
Harvey White, 
Melville Davis, 
James H. Seldomridge, 
Addison Talbott, 



200 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

Captain William Mills. 

SERGEANTS. 

Samuel I. Poland, Joseph H. Bigger, 

William N. Watt, Robert S. Jacoby, 



Thomas Hunter. 



CORPORALS. 



William H. Belt, George W. King, 

Absalom Ames, Samuel D. Focht, 

Samuel G. Stewart, Jacob Steen, 

Andrew C. Cottrill, John Gallagher, 

Musician — Aseph HoUingsworth. 

VETERANS. 

William II. H. Bridgeman, William Kiernan, 

Daniel Gallagher, Josiah M. Lamme, 

Thomas Grimes, Joseph S. Loy, 

James Hamilton, George M. Moore. 

RECRUITS. 

John Ames, ' Bazel V. Lucas, 

Hezekiah V. Brown, James Maxwell, 

William A. Dodd, George Nisonger, 

Jacob C. Filbert, • David Patterson, 

John Gentleman, John G. Smart. 

TRANSFERRED. 

Sergeant William Collins, First Lieut. Wm. T. Drummond, 

Sergeant James A. Worden, Joseph Hamill, 

Sergeant Samuel Galloway, William Connelly, 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 



201 



Sergeant William C. Galloway, 

Arthur Chase, 

James W. Reynolds, 

Charles Kernon, 

Samuel Stewart, 

First Lieut. Robert Hunter. 



William McAffee, 
Gilbert Nesbitt, 
John B. Gowdy, 
Jacob H. Elichelljerger, 
James S. Thropp, 



DISCHARGED. 



Captain Austin McDowell, 
First Lieut. John N. McClung, 
Sergeant John C. Hale, 
Sergeant Philip Meredith, 
Corporal George Robinson, 
Corporal James A. Gowdy, 
Corporal George Thompson, 
Corporal Benjamin Horner, 
Corporal Samuel Dodd, 
John McCrossen, 
John A. Bower, 
Mark Drummond, 
Thomas Seavon, 
Andrew J. Gregory, 
Robert E. Games, 
Jacob Greeser, 
Wilson Pennyweight, 
Samuel C. Hook, 
Elijah Teach, 
Richard S. Galloway, 
John Q. Collins, 
John Andrew, 
Patrick Costello, 
John Jelly. 



Daniel Brannani, 
Charles A. Haynes, 
William F. McFadden, 
Perry Horner, 
Cornelius Beason, 
William Andrew, 
William G. Winter, 
James Maxwell, 
Albert T. Marshall, 
Joseph W. Stewart, 
Harrison A. Galloway, 
Joseph Rippetoe, 
John W. Sinnard, 
Burgess Morgan, 
Henry Ash ton, 
William C. Rippetoe, 
Henry Frock, 
Andrew J. Lennox, 
Henry Henderson, 
Amos W. Prugh, 
Joseph H. Black, 
William H. Collins, 
Elisha Mills, 



DISCHARGED BY EXPIRATION OF SERVICE. 



Robert Duckson, 
Robert M. Deen, 
Robert M. Smart, 
David Ewery, 



John W. Fairchild, 
Michael Illigs, 
Orange H. Marshall, 
Samuel S. Wingett. 



202 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



DEATHS. 



Sergeant John H. McClung, 

Bowen Hale, 

Emory Holt, 

John Coppie, 

John McCune, 

Nile Drummond, 



Corporal Cyrus N. McClure^ 
George Townsley, 
Philip Minehart, 
Francis Humphry, 
Thomas W. Thompson,, 
Thomas Paxton. 



DESERTED. 



John S. Caddemy, 
Peter Burkhamer, 
S. P. Wo r den. 



Isaac Crites, 
George W. Streets, 
William Williams. 



COJMP^ISrY E. 



PRIVATES. 



Peter Benham, 
Milton Bennett, 
James Barrett, 
George W. Cain, 
Hiram J. Cahill, 
John Cox, 
John Carroll, 
Amos Coy, 
John Conner, 
Jacob Cullenberg, 
William Duffey, 

Davis, 

William Dixson, 
Thomas Davis, 
James Demint, 
William Davis, 
Henry C. Davis, 
John Fit/gerald, 



James John, 
Isaac M. Krise, 
Thomas Kirby, 
John Kirby, 
Samuel Lenibaugh,. 
Francis Lammel, 
Jeremiah Linscott^ 
Garrett Linscott, 
John Murphy, 
John Mason, 
Daniel M. Cornell, 
Samuel Mendenall, 
Daniel M. Canless, 
John Newland, 
Wesley Owens, 
Thomas O. Donald, 
Garrett Pattersor^ 
fohn W. I'asson, 



THK SEVENTY-FOURTH. 



2oa 



John Feely, 
Robert Fiuley, 
Charles R. Kinley, 
John B. Fisher, 
Edward Fest, 
John L. Furguson, 
Caserow Fest, 
George Funk, 
Enos Furguson, 
Patrick Gibbons, 
William C. Grooves, 
Thomas Ginn, 
John H. Garrett, 
John H. Gloifelter, 
Clayton Haynes, 
Charles Hanison, 
vSamuel Hili, 
John X. Haynes, 
George W. Horner, 
Joshua Holland, 
William Holsten, 
Daniel Harne^-, 



John Rose, 
Andrew Rovell, 
Anier Reese, 
Isicar Reese, 
Benjamin Romspert, 
John A. Shauk, 
Isaac Sollers, 
William Smith, 
Edward C. Snyder, 
Peter Snyder. 
George A. Snyder, 
Wesley Snyder, 
Flenry Snyder, 
Henry Sellers, 
Albert Swadner, 
Mortimer Stenneth, 
Eli Truly, 
Samuel Tobamj 
Josiah A. West, 
John W. Watts, 
Moses West, 
Andrew Young. 



COlMF^ISrY F. 



Captain Walter Crook, 
First Lieut. Matthew H. Peters, 
Second Lieut. J. R. Hitesman, 
P'irst Sei'geant Daniel Staly, 
Second Sergeant Enos Wallers, 
Third Sei'geant Isaac Miller, 
Fourth Serg't J. R. McCarter. 
Fifth Serg't Charles C. Dotson, 
Corporal Cyrus Phillips, 
William H. Smith. 



David Bausman, 

Isaac Harshman, 

Charles N. Harper, 

Samuel Shellebarger, 

Nathan Rasor, 

Johnson Williams, 

Musician, Isaac P. Foster. 

Musician, Leon'd Peckenpaugh, 

Teamster, H. N. Roberson, 



PRIVATES. 



David Bennett, 
Martin Bowman, 



Steven Lever, 
Jacob Lenegar, 



204 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



George W. Peck, 
Jacob Bowman, 
George Bailsman, 
Lewis Button, 
Michael Benert, 
Peter Brant, 
R. H. Brooken, 
William H. Barton, 
John Boiighner, 
Henry H. Cassel, 
Jacob H. Circle, 
Joseph Coner, 
John Constable, 
Samuel Campbell, 
Jacob Candle,. 
William Douglass, 
John M. Drill, 
Abraham Doughman, 
John Epperd, 
John Elliott, 
David N, Elder, 
William Ford, 
William Filzwater, 
John W. Glover, 
John Gillen, 
William Huffman, 
Benjamin G. Hughes, 
William H. Huffman, 
M. A. Harker, 
Theodore Hoover, 
Johnson Hadder, 
Thomas B. Howard, 
George M. Hause, 
Thomas Hogland, 
David E. Hooven, 
Aaron S. Hull, 
John H. Jacob?, 
John Jones, 



John M. Carter. 
Patrick McCain, 
James R. Martin, 
James Milfer, 
Edward Moon, 
John M. Mahon, 
William Muns, 
John Obrine, sen, 
John Obrine, jun, 
William Pearpoint, 
George M. Perrine, 
William Phillips, 
George Reed, 
Ranthus M. Runyan, 
John M. Runyan, 
J. R. Sample, 
Eden Sherman, 
Wesley Sheets, 
George M. Stokes, 
George L. Swentz, 
Benjamin F. Shor, 
John B. Sweney, 
Jacob Steffer, 
Steven Shaler, 
John Shields, 
John H. Tonkenson, 
James Taylor, 
Hugh Thompson, 
Jonathan R. Townsend, 
David Williamson, 
Milton Weaver, 
Squire White, 
William H. Wilson, 
Andrew J. Hyland, 
John Walter, 
Luther Wessinger, 
Thomas Wright, 
Andrew G. Wickham, 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 



205 



Frank Kramer, 
Robert Kirkpatrick, 
John Kipp, 
William Constable, 



Benjamin Wood, 
Michael Welsh, 
Charles Bealey, 



co]mpa^jn^y a. 



Captain Albion W. Bostwick, 
First Lieut. Thos. C. McElravey, 
Second Lieut. Geo. W. Bricker, 
First Serg't M. K. McFadden, 
Theodore Ligget, 
William H. Jones, 
William V. B. Crosky, 
John B. Pope, 
Nathaniel Ih-indley, 
Corporal Bennonia S. Ilall. 



Corporal Andrew F, Clark, 
Corporal William G. Barnes, 
Corporal William McCollough, 
Corporal Leander Baker, 
Corporal William C. Welling, 
Corporal Jasper Denning, 
Fifer, Thomas Wenfield, 
Drummer, Frank Fialton, 
Wagoner, Robert P. Canus, 



PRIVATES. 



John A. Askren, 
Amos P. Barnes, 
John F. Boles, 
Thomas Burton, 
James Beaty, 
Samuel Browning, 
Amos Brough, 
Samuel Bridgman, 
John W. Case, 
Hiram Cox, 
Jeremiah Gughan, 
Isaac W. Campbell, 
Thomas H. Channel, 
Benjamin Cox, 
George W. Cunningham, 
David Copeland, 
William Chambers, 
William H. Crouch, 



Joshua Lowenmiller, 
Kennedy Lyons, 
John Luster, 
George W. Legget, 
Sheridan Loslin, 
Isaac Liggit, 
George B. Liggit, 
George A. McAdamas, 
Albert McFadden, 
Thomas McFarland, 
William S. Maxwell, 
Joseph C. Mansfield, 
John F. McFadden, 
Thomas Miller, 
David Miller, 
John H. McGarvin, 
James McGeary, 
Alexander W. Osborn, 



200 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



William Case, 
William Denning, 
Newton Denning, 
Abraham Dennis, 
Nathaniel Elliott, 
Dundas Fisher, 
William P. Frigar, 
John Handy, 
John A. Handlus, 
Israel Howell, 
Elias Hirl, 
Benjamin Howes, 
James Johnston, 
John A. Jones, 
Daniel Kimmei, 
Samuel Handley. 



Thomas W. Poland, 
Richard Powell, 
Joshua Timmons, 
William Shires, 
Franklin Shilling, 
vSolomon Siusel, 
John Scott, 
Admardine Wood, 
Joseph Walker, 
Harvey B. Wright, 
George Welling, 
Parker S. VV'^atson, 
Samuel VViggins, 
Michael Wharton, 
John S. Peister, 



CO]?vfI^^Js.iSrY IT. 



Captain Joseph H. Ballard, 
First Lieut. David Snodgrass, 
Second Lieut. W. H. H. Moody, 
First Serg't Paper A. Spahr, 
Second Serg't Farey (). Bissett, 
William H. Evans, 
J. Will Con well, 
William H. Sesler, 
Corporal Philip Stumm, 



Luther Wissinger, 
Henry Hooper, 
Artemus Hendrickson, 
William A. Brouse, 
Israel Randall, 
P^avid H. Foster, 
James Taylor, 
I5ugler, Horace L, Romey, 



PRIVATES. 



Horace Ballard, 
George S. Baringer, 
Richard Brady, 
Thomas Buchett, 
Melvin Barnhard, 
Virgil T. Barnhard, 
Richard IL Brookens, 



Henry Romey, 
J ules Romey, 
J. M. Reynold, 
Samuel Rodgcrs, 
Xavier Ruegge, 
Joseph St. John, 
Daniel Shindledecker, 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 



207 



Peter Bostwick, 
Christopher Cline, 
Calvin Curl, 
Joseph H. demons, 
James Clark, 
William Connelly, 
Ezra Carpenter, 
Henry H. Comesford, 
John Close, 
John Clippinger, 
John W. Devoe, 
Joseph Daughterly, 
John A. Donard, 
Henry Duncan, 
William Douglass, 
Philip Dencler, 
Daniel Day, 
Dudley Day, 
William Day, 
Solomon Ellis, 
Adam Fisher, 
John Glover, 
Morris Haley, 
John House, 
Augustus Herman, 
William Miller, 
John Moon, 
Ferdinand Moy, 
Andrew McGinnis, 
Erastus Mclnlin, 
Daniel Wallet, 
William Pierpoint, 



Frederick Shull, 
William Skinner, * 
Harvey Snyder, 
William Harness, 
John Haner, 
William H. Holden, 
Albert F. Johnston, 
John Jennings, 
Israel Kirk, 
Francis A. Snyder, 
Thomas M. Lesler, 
Benjamin F. Sher. 
Warlsel Lent, 
Jesse Snodgrass, 
Alfred P. Snodgrass, 
James H. Scott, 
Vanransaler Thompson, 
David B. Tiffany, 
George W. Tiffany, 
Owen Thompson, 
Elijah C. Taylor, 
Wesley Thomas, 
Eli Turner, 
Harvey R. Tinsley, 
Jesse Williams, 
George S. Wise, 
George W. Wyburn, 
Joseph Wyburn, 
Curtis Harner, 
George M. Wimwood, 
Urs Vaggc. 



CO]VEPA.lSrY I. 



Captain Patrick Dwyer, 
First Lieut. Robert Cullen, 
Sec. Lieut. B. V. Connouehton, 



First Serg't Corn. McGreavey, 
John Tohee, 
Bernard W. Neil, 



208 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



Martin Ryan, 

Corp, Rodger McDonnaugh, 

Thomas Kennedy, 

William Burns, 

Michael McGreavey. 



Morgan Evan, 

Musician, Philemon E. Jones, 
Musician, John Smith, 
Wagoner, Michael Finegan, 



Ambrose Edward, 
William Anderson, 
Michael Brannon, 
Hugh Brady, 
Frank Brady, 
Edward Baffin, 
John Birny, 
James Bolger, 
Michael Connell, 
Anthony Cline, 
James Corcoran, 
Michael Canen, 
Patrick Condon, 
James Carrigan, 
Thomas Cox, 
Timothy Cronen, 
John Creedon, 
James Douces, 
John Dervine, 
Edward Donavan, 
Michael Donavan, 
John Donagheu, 
James Dowling, 
John Dowd, 
Patrick Doyle, 
John Dwyer, 
James Dayley, 
Patrick Flinn, 
James I'ayhey, 
Hugh Fox, 
Patrick 1/ogerty, 



PRIVATES. 



John Hawkins, 
William Han, 
Peter Johnston, 
Martin Kenehan, 
Edward Keating, 
James Keating, 
Thomas Lynch, 
William Lyons, 
Daniel Lane, 
James Lyans, 
Edward Lenehan, 
James Lee, 
James"Lynham, 
John Leeland, 
John Morarity, 
Daniel.'Maloney, 
Owen McGarren, 
Patrick McNally, 
Thomas N. Murphy, 
Thomas^McGreavey, 
William McClane, 
David [Mahoney, 
James McCarthy, 
Henry" Myers, 
Terrence McLaughlin, 
l^atrick*Naughton, 
Dennis O'Brien, No. i, 
Dennis O'Brien, No, 2,. 
I3ennis O. Neile, 
Edward Padden, 
Hugh Pandergast, 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 



209 



Frank Farrell, 
Andrew Flanigan, 
John Gales, 
James Gurkin, 
John Glynn, 
Patrick Hunt, 



Molike Ryan, 
Lawrence Roach, 
Jacob Smith, 
John Smith, 
James Sullivan, 
Michael Travis. 



CO]MI»^NY K. 



Captain Robert P. Findley, 
First Lieut. Jas. H. Cochnower, 
Second Lieut. Wm. H. Reed, 
First Serg't Theophilus H. Barr, 
John H. McRea, 
Charles Rambour, 
R. Ross Wallace, 
James W. Partington, 
Corporal Edward Proctor, 
Oras Goldson. 



George Lytle, 
Wm. L Holmes, 
Charles L. Galligher, 
Wm. Carter, 
John W. Carson, 
James S. McKitrick, 
Fifer, Harry H. Higher, 
Drummer, Napoleon B. Agy, 
Wagoner, Calvin Bush, 



PRIVATES. 



G. Wanick Armstrong, 

James Atherton, 

Dorsey Ames, 

Wm. Ankim, 

Wm. Baird, 

Henry Baker, 

Robert Baker, 

Robert B. Baker, 

John Barker, 

Thomas E. Brown, 

George R. Brown, 

George H. Bennett, 

George W. Bush, 

Jasper Babb, 

James Boyd, 

Wm. V. Barns, 
14 



Jackson W, Horney, 
Wilson A. McKee, 
Ezekiel McPeeke, 
Washing Warshall, 
John O. Harran, 
Alphon C. Porter, 
Joseph Patterson, 
Andrew Pheterson, 
Robert C, Parr, 
Jacob H. Phillip, 
Isaac C. Roberts, 
Samuel Rodger, 
Thomas Ralston, 
Isaac Rammasour, 
Andrew C. Rea, 
Thomas H. Rea, . 



210 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



Michael Brown, 
John Burk, 
James Berry, 
John Cargatt, 
John A. Couch, 
Joseph Desotell, 
Wm. M. Dillon, 
Wm. I. Floyd, 
Joseph Faber, 
Noah Guenford, 
John Garthaffner, 
John U. Holston, 
John Horton, 
Wm. Kitt, 
George King, 
Wm. Kent, 
Pleasant A. Lemmon, 
Wm. Lambert, 
Henry Lyster, 
Philip I. Munich, 
James McMullen, 
George M. May, 
Wm. W. Martin, 
]ames McCormick, 
James C. May. 



John Shocky, 
Luke Shoemaker, 
Robert Savage, 
Charles Sander, 
Walter S. Saull, 
James A. Sleeth, 
David Sleeth, 
Robert C. Stewart, 
Irvin Stewart, 
James Stewart, 
Huston Stahl, 
Alexander Sankey, 
Louis Sheel, 
Wm. Sayner, 
James Subbell, 
James Thompson, 
Thomas Terns, 
Joseph C. Underwood, 
Charles H. Underwood, 
George W. Vanfassen, 
James Workman, 
Kinsey S. W^illiams, 
Harris Williams, 
Wm. Yates, 
Wm. O. Allison. 



RECRUITS FOR THREE YEARS. 



COlMP-AISrY E. 



Benjamin F. Cahill, 
Henry Y. Cahill, 
Patrick Cusic, 
John S. Cosier, 



Wm. Helmer, 
Charles A. Kershner, 
John Murphy, 
Jacob Miller, 



THE SEVENTY-FOURTH. 



211 



Amos Coy, 
Samuel Coy, 
John H. Cyphers, 
Wm. K, Davis, 
George B. Harshman, 
Wm. Havey, 
Robert Havey, 



James M. Provost, 
Jacob E. Swadner, 
John K. Siddar, 
Winfield S. Sellars, 
James W. Smith, 
John Truber, 
Darius Wetsell. 



CO]SlI*^NY F. 



Henry W. Allen, 
Michael Bennett, 
George G. Gabriel, 
Joseph B. Jones, 
James E. Jones, 
James Jay, 
John O. Kesler, 



John J. Leah man, 
Benjamin Lever, 
Labington Norris, 
Benjamin Palmer, 
Charles Sprop, 
Wm. I. Swallow, 
John B. Wagner. 



ONE-YEAR RECRUITS. 



Francis Evans, 
Wm. I. Gibson. 



Wm. Y. Wetmore, 



COlNIP^ISrY G. 



George Arnold, 
Joseph P. Roals, 
George F. Braden, 
Wm. W. Branson, 
Joseph B. Berry, 
Wm. A. Banton, 
Charles \L Blackburn, 
Adam H. Barr, 
Wm. H. Campbell, 
John E. Caster, 
Jacob C. Case, 
Franklin Cartright, 



Benjamin E. Furguson, 
Gideon Gutchall, 
Paul Grabill, 
John F. Geary, 
Joseph W. Cartright, 
Jonas S. Gravy, 
Lawrence F. Guder, 
Perry Griffith, 
Alexander Hammond, 
Wm. A. Holmes, 
Thomas A. Hall, 
John Hatcher, 



212 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



Thomas G. Cox, 
Peter Dvalt, 
Samuel Espich, 
Thomas Fleming, 
Wm. Furlay, 
John Frazier, 



Samuel R. Johnson,. 
George S. Krappe, 
George W. Lyons, 
John Liggett, 
Wm. Miers, 
Adam H'. Mook. 



COMI>^^NY H. 



John F. Powell, 
James Chipman, 
Laird M. Coon, 
Wm. R. Coon, 
David F. Coon, 
Frederick Conrad, 
George W. Coldwell, 



Daniel Gray, 

Calvin N. Hall, 

Jacob Hovvenstein, 

Albert King, 

Salem Reed, 

Wm. Sourbough, 

Undercook, Robert Jackson. 



DEATHS. 



Albert Chipman, 
Louis A. Gerord, 



John Lutees, 
Wm. Thompson. 



Roster of 12th Reg'iment. 



Colonel John W. Lowe, 
Colonel Carr B. White, 
Lieut. Colonel Carr B. White, 
Lieut. Colonel J. D. Hines, 
Major Jonathan D. Hines, 
Major James D. Wallace, 
Major Edward M. Carey, 
Major Rigdon Williams, 



Surgeon Wm. W. Holmes, 
Surgeon Wm. T. Ridenhour, 
Surgeon James D. Webb, 
Surgeon N. F. Graham. 
Ass't Surgeon, Horace P. Kay, 
Ass't Surgeon, Silas T. Buck, 
Chaplain Russell D. VanDusen, 
Chaplain Charles L. Allen. 



CAPTAINS. 



James D. Wallace, 
Edward M. Carey, 
James vSloane, 
William B. Smith, 
' Rigdon Williams, 
Joseph L. Hilt, 
Azanah W. Doane, 
Watts McMurchy, 
Andrew Legg, 
Ferdinand Gunkle, 
Henry S. Clement, 
John Curtis, 
Ezra Stevenson, 
Wm. W. Liggett, 



Daniel W. Pauley, 
Wm. E. Fisher, 
Henry F, Haukes, 
Jonathan C. Wallace, 
John Lewis, 
Robert Wilson, 
Aaron N. Channell, 
James W. Ross, 
Horatio G. Tibbals, 
Jacob A. Yordy, 
Jonathan Wallace, 
Hiram McKay, 
Ashley Brown. 



FIRST LIEUTENANTS. 



Henry S. Clement, 
Wm. W. Liggett, 



James W. Ross, 
Jacob A. Yordy, 



214 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



Wm. P. Coune, 
George W. Goode, 
Daniel W. Pauley, 
Robert Wilson, 
Wm. Hivling, 
Alex M. Ridgway, 
Jonathan C. Wallace, 
Ashley Brown, 
Andrew J. Roxa, 
W. H. Roberts, 
Wm, E. Fisher, 
Henry F. Hawkes, 
John Lewis, 
John Wise, 
Aaron N. Channell, 
Calvin Goddard, 



Horatio G. Tibbals, 
Robert H. Shoemaker, 
Hiram McKay, 
John C. Campbell, 
John V. O'Connor, 
Michael B. Mahoney, 
Wm. H. Glotfelter, 
John W. Hiltz, 
Thomas J. Atkinson, 
Wm. B. Nesbitt, 
Wm. A. Ludluni, 
Frank M. Slade, 
Thomas F. Hill, 
John Lewis, 
Harrison G. Otis,. 
Abraham King, 



SECOND LIEUTENANTS. 



Wm. E. Fisher, 
John Curtis, 
Ezra Stevenson, 
Moses W. Tra,der, 
James W. Ross, 
Jacob A. Yordy, 
Wm. H. Miller, 
Alonzo M. Dimmitt, 
Aaron N. Channell, 
Horatio G. Tibballs, 
Robert H. Shoemaker, 
Hiram McKay, 
John C. Campbell, 
John V. O'Connor, 
John W. Hiltz, 
Frederick B. Schnebly, 
Thomas J. Atkinson, 
Edwin W. Jacoby, 



Wm. H. Glotfelter, 
Wm. B. Nesbitt, 
Wm. A. Ludlum, 
Andrew C. Miller, 
W^m. Sine, 
Thomas F. Hill, 
Frank M. Slade, 
Michael B. Mahoney, 
Harrison G. Otis, 
James H. Palmer, 
Maurice Watkins,' 
Henry L. Sherwood, 
Robert B. Wilson, 
Jonathan H. McMillan, 
Abram King, 
Edward R. Grim, 
Fenton L. Tprrence^ 
John M. Busby. 



THE TWELFTH. 



215 



CO:MPA^]SrY D. 



Captain W. B, Smith, 
George W. Goode, 
Moses W. Trader, 
John Lewis, 
W. T. Timberlake, 
\V. B. Nesbitt, 
John W. McMillan, 
Fred B. Schebly, 
Ed Bloosteman, 
Wm. S. Cessna, 
Hiram D. Cline, 
Joseph S. Clokey, 
Abram King, 
John A. Snyder, 
Samuel H. Nesbitt, 
James I. Steen, 
Charles A. McCarty, 
Ephraim A. Adams, 
John Alkinson, 
John E. Brown, 
James A. Bailey, 
Henry Benser, 
John H. Baker, 
Francis G. Barber, 
Robert K. Boggs, 
Robert P. Beard, 
Robert Boggs, 
George W. Beard, 
Wm. Butler, 
Henry Boyle, 
James D. Counsell, 
John W. Cline, 
David R. Curry, 
John Cordingly, 



Henry C. Huffine, 
Thomas Hays, 
Patrick Howard, 
Wm. H. Iliff, 
Janies H, Tlifif, 
Thomas W. Jenkins, 
George W. King, 
John W. Kirkwood, 
David INI. Log, 
James Linton, 
Lymanto McBride, 
John McCreary, 
John McAerleg, 
Joseph D. Murry, 
James W. W. Popple, 
Henry Robinson, 
W^m. V. Reading, 
Gilbert D. Robertson, 
Alfred Richardson, 
James Wells, 
David Wilson, 
John F. Reif, 
Nathan Romerne, 
James Ross, 
James W. Raney, 
George W. SoUers, 
John S. Stoops, 
Nathan H. Sidwell, 
Charles W. Stevenson, 
Sylvester Sroufe, 
James K. Smith, 
John B. Scroggy, 
Oliver Steviett, 
James Smith, 



^16 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



Solon Cook, 
Staunton Carter, 
George Cronels, 
John Davis, 
Ed S. Devine, 
Wm. A. Dingess, 
Adam Dingess, 
David C. B. Ellis, 
Thomas Ginn, 
John S. Harper, 
John A. Harper, 
James Henry. 



Wm. C. Shape, 
Matimer E. Stone, 
Wm. P. Taylor, 
Ledwig Turner, 
Alex TurnbuU, 
Edward S. Thomasson, 
George Thompson, 
J. Atkinson Thomas, 
Daniel Ullery, 
John White. 
Cyrus Bailey, 



Roster of 94th Reg^iraent. 



Colonel Joseph W. Frizell, 
Colonel Stephen A. Bassford, 
Lieut. Col. Stephen A. Bassford, 
Lieut. Col. David King, 
Lieut. Col. Rue P. Hutchins, 
Major David King, 
Major Rue P. Hutchins, 
Major Charles C. Gibson, 
Major Wm. H. Snider, 



Surgeon Edwin Sinnet, 
Surgeon Wm. B. Gibson, 
Ass't Surgeon J. L. Sorber, 
Ass't Surgeon L. C. Fouls, 
Ass't Surgeon Wm. B. Gibson, 
Ass't Surgeon J. Resley, 
Ass't Surgeon Edwin C. Booth, 
Ass't Surg. D. W. Humfreville, 
Chaplain Wm. Allington. 



CAPTAINS. 



Perry Stewart, 
John C. Drury, 
Thedius W. Walton, 
Rue P. Hutchins, 
David Steel, 
Thomas H. Workman, 
Wesley Gorsuch, 
Charles C. Gibson, 
James Kyle, 
Chauncy Riffle, 
Wm. H. Snider, 
James E. Edmons, 



Dixon G. McLaughlin, 
Charles R. Moss, 
David T. Davidson, 
John W. Ford, 
Amaziah Winger, 
Nathan G. McConkey, 
Benjamin F. Coolidge, 
Frank A. Hardy, 
Samuel H. Sherlock, 
Alex Haywood, 
Andrew Gowan, 
Samuel Judy, 



FIRST LIEUTENANTS. 



Hezekiah Kelshner, 
Joshua H. Horton, 
Benjamin F. Coolidge, 



Frederick B. McNeal, 
Amaziah Winger, 
George W. Wilson, 



218 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



Dixon G. McLaughlin, 
James A. Petticrew, 
John A. Beal, 
Alfred L. Trader, 
Samuel T. Arnold, 
Wm. H. Snider, 
George D. Farrer, 
Nathan G. McConkey, 
John W. Ford, 
Frank A. Hardy, 
Henry A. Tomlinson, 
James E. Edmons, 
Daniel D. Hunter, 
John Kinge.ry,. 
Samuel H. Sherlock, 



Samuel Judy, 
Alex Haywood, 
Andrew Gowan, 
Andrew Wiggins, 
Wm. D. Putnam, 
Henry C. Cushman, 
James Mitchell. 
John A. Hivling, 
James T. Pierson, 
M. Dickey, 
James B. Cross, 
Morrison M. Markwith, 
Edward Connor, 
Frank Denwiddie, 
H. Newton Arnold. 



SECOND LIEUTENANTS. 



Amaziah Winger, 
Frederick B. McNeal, 
Frank A. Hardy, 
Andrew Wiggins, 
Henry A. Tomlinson, 
Samuel Walton, 
David T. Davidson, 
George H. Maddox, 
Charles R. Moss, 
George W. Wilson, 
James E. Edmon, 
Wm. D. Putnam. 



John Kingery, 
Barton C. Mitchell, 
Alexander Haywood, 
John P. Patterson, 
Samuel Judy, 
Andrew Gowan, 
Henry C. Cushman,. 
James Mitchell, 
John A. Hivling, 
James T. Pierson, 
M. Dickey, 



CO]MI'A.ISfY E. 



David Steel, 
John A. Beal, 
Samuel Walton, 
Samuel H. I^ierce, 



John S. Perkins, 
E. S. Palmer, 
Milo A. Richison, 
Wm. B. Richison, 



THE NINETY FOURTH. 



219 



John Kingery, 

James Mitchell, 

James W. Lucas, 

David W. Surgert, 

O. H. P. Knal, 

Augustus Kempt, 

Jacob Miller. 

W. H. PI. Towler, 

Charles Hoffman, 

Josephus Cover, 

Wm. Nalan, 

George [i. Andrew, 

AVm. F. Snediker, 

E. H. Dewitt, 

Henry Abey, 

Simon P. Ally, 

Charles Bell, 

Joseph W. Beck, 

Samuel A. Bowermaster, 

Tilbert Browder, 

Cyrus Brown, 

Wm. Brannum, 

Daniel Clohesey, 

Abraham Coy, 

Isaac Cover, 

Oscar Chisty, 

Adam Carnwell, 

W. B. Cornwell, 

D. W. Carpenter, 

Christopher Cory, 

Lewis Cass Cotterell, 

Michael Clohesey, 

Lorenzo Clark, 

J. M. Cotterell, 

Hiram R. Conn, 

John Davis, 

Solomon Dodge, 

T. C. Dann, 



John Ridenhour, 
John W. Steel, 
Wm. Shane, 
J. C. Stewart, 
George ^I. Smith, 
J. R. Stewart, 
Archibald Steen, 
Madison Spahr, 
Wm. Smith, 
John A. Steel, 
Wm. N. Gilbert, 
Wm. H. Goe, 
James A. Gowdy,. 
Samuel Gowdy, 
Jasper N, Greene, 
John A. Ilivling, 
Jacob P. Harner, 
Samuel Heathcook, 
Finley Hopkins, 
Wesley Watson, 
James A. Harper, 
Wm. B. Holzapple, 
Andrew Jackson, 
Wm. Jones, 
Alfred Jones, 
Patrick Jones, 
John R. Jacoby,. 
James H. Kyle, 
Isaac P. Kelley, 
John C. Lovett,. 
Thomas Leary, 
James Liddle, 
Albert H. Leech, 
Robert Little, 
Evan B. McCord, 
Hugh McQuiston, 
James P. McFarland, 
Isaac Martin, 



220 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



George Uickerson, 
John M. Eckert, 
Harrison Fugale, 
James M. Flanigan, 
Wm. Finley, 
Wm. Fogwell, 
S. T. Gallen, 
John A. Goe, 
Henry Heimer, 
Frank Haverstick, 
Abel Haughey, 
James M. Hames. 
John Hussey, 
Thomas S. Huston, 
George W. Huston, 
Phil C. Harshman, 
Emnet Jobe, 
D. A. Jones, 
Addison M. Jones, 
Jacob Knee, 
David Kelley, 
Adam G. Kershner, 
John H. Koogler, 
Allen Lucas, 
Solomon Lucas, 
Fred B. Ledbeller, 
■Elijah H. Lewis, 
Henry I. Luty, 
Joseph Lewis, 
W. A. Martin, 
Samuel Neal, 
-Robert Pratt, 



John A. Miller, 
Henry Oakman, 
Simeon W. Oldham, 
Abner W. Oldham, 
John Phillips, 
Harrison R. Putnam, 
David Patterson, 
Alfred Rader, 
Frederick Steward, 
Samuel Sutter, 
Wm. Studevant, 
Nathaniel Studevant, 
George S. Sharp, 
Obediah Sylvester, 
John F. Shearer, 
John AL Sellars, 
Lassing H. Shadley, 
Henry Story, 
Adam Sites, 
Martin vSepler, 
James M. Tounsley, 
Evan Tiser, 
Wm. Tingley, 
Michael Tobias, 
Henry W. Tobias, 
Harrison Truby, 
John Tohos, 
John M. Vancleaf, 
James R. P. Weaver, 
Lorenzo Williams, 
Joshua Winget, 
John W. Wikel. 



com:i^^^^y h. 



James Kyle, 
Alfred L. Trader, 
David T. Davidson, 



Wm. Pair, 

Charles H. Thomas, 

John P. Patterson, 



THE NINETY-FOURTH. 



221{ 



Andrew Gowars, 
Clinton C. Nickols, 
John G. McPherson, 
Isaac R. Lane, 
James M. Thirkield, 
r)avid W. Williamson, 
Philip L. McDowell, 
Levi Rader, 
Charles H. Miller, 
George W. Pottle, 
George Gillett, 
Vespasian Pottle, 
Wm. Foreman, 
John G. Bull, 
John L Bull, 
James E. Bull, 
Andrew IL Black, 
Daniel Buckley, 
Tacob Brocia?, , 

Wm. Cliftor, 
Daniel Conrad, 
John N. Chisty, 
Hugh M. Cooper, 
Robert Cooper, 
David D. Cheeney, 
Wm. H. Crawford, 
James Clark, 
Frank Dinurddie, 
Louis Duke, 
James Doole, 
I )ennis H. Deam, 
Gilbert Dehart, 
Granville P. Edsall, 
John Eyler, 
Henry H. Eavey, 
Samuel Furguson, 
Lewis Gilbert, 
George V. Goode, 



David R. Hopping, 
James Holt, 
John H. Hoover, 
John F. James, 
James Losly, 
Wm, K. McLaughlin, 
• Patrick H. Maley, 
Albert H. Miller, 
Samuel H. McMillan, 
Smith Mendenhall, 
Samuel Mendenhall, 
John H. Noble, 
Martin O. Dowel, 
Christopher Peterson,, 
Lewis Peterson, 
Wilber Peterson, 
Abel F. Peterson, 
Jonas Peterson, jr, 
James M. Quinn, 
Thomas Reid, 
James R. Reid, 
Anthony C. Rupell, 
Wm. A. Street, 
James M.. Starr, 
John D. M. Stewart, 
Alfred Stratton, 
Robert K. Stevenson,, 
Benjamin Short, 
Wm. A. Hook, 
James M. Smith, 
Fenton Squire, 
Jacob M. Sutton, 
Samuel Thompson, 
John K. Tannyhil), 
John C. Thompson, 
James A. Welch, 
Mahlon Womble, 
Joseph K, Wright, 



222 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

Wm. M. Walton, Daniel Vulty, 

Charles E. Way, Jesse Wright, 

James Staley, . Robert P. Walker, 

Samuel Strickler, George M. Wright, 

• James A. Smeigh, George C. Winter, 

Cornelius Stark, Hugh M. Weir, 

Wm. C. Thompson, , John W. Whiteman, 

Christian Vanhorn, David M. Winter. 



Roster of 110th Regiment. 



Colonel J. Wanen Keifer, 
Lieut. Colonel Wm. N. Foster, 
Lieut. Colonel Otho IL Binkley, 
Major, Otho H. Binkley, 
Major Wm. S. McElwaine, 
Major Aaron Spangler, 
Surgeon S. Pixley, 
Surgeon R. McCandless, 
Ass't Surgeon E. C. Owens, 



Ass't Surgeon H. H. Bishop, 
Ass't Surgeon A. W. Pinkerton, 
Ass't Surgeon John W, Mack, 
Ass't Surgeon Wm. H. Park, 
Ass't Surgeon E. P. Ebersole, 
Chaplain James Harvey, 
Chaplain Lucius W. Chapman, 
Chaplain .Milton J. Miller, 



COlVIFA-IsrY D. 



Captain Wm. McElwain, 
First Lieut. Daniel D. Moore, 
Second Lieut. Alex. Trimble, ^ 
First Serg't Thomas S. Clark, 
Second Serg't Joseph Vaneaton, 
Third Serg't Wm. A. Jones, 
Fourth Serg't Wm. H. Byrd, 
Fifth Sergt Wm. H. Hany, 
Corporal Lewis PI. Beal, 
Corporal Franklin H. McDaniel, 
Corporal A. Pickthem, 
Corporal Abraham Sheeley, 
Corporal Thomas Goe, 
Corporal Thomas J. Daughterly, 
Corporal Wm. V. Luce, 
Corporal Frederick LaRue, 



James H. demons, 
John Crites, 
Jesse C. demons, 
David Crawford, 
Hiram Crumley, 
Stephen Dunn, 
Wm. R. Day, 
James Dukin, 
James C. Freeman, 
Amos W. Files, 
George M. Fletcher, 
George W. Gano, 
John Gaylor, 
Wm. Gaylor, 
Frederick Husker, 
Christopher Hornick, 



224 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

Preston Anderson, Oliver P. Heaton, 

Samuel N. Adams, Peter Honecker, 

Nelson G. Adams, James C. Hartsook^ 

Harmon Anderson, A. C. Hubbard, 

James C. Bralton, Joseph G. Hawkins, 

David Curl, James H. Harshman. 



Roster of 44th Regiment. 



Colonel Samuel A. Gilbert, 
Lieut. Col. H. Blair Wilson, 
Lieut. Col. A. O. Mitchell, 
Lieut. Col. Lysander W. Tulley, 
Major A. O. Mitchell, 
Major Alpheus S. Moore, 



Surgeon H. K. Steele, 
Ass't Surgeon John H. Rodgers, 
Ass't Surgeon Douglas Luce, 
Ass't Surgeon Benj. F. Davis, 
Chaplain Thomas P. Childs, 



COlVCP^ISrY D. 



Lysander W, Tulley, 

Nickolus D. Badger, 

Samuel C. Howell, 

Edward Rice, 

T. B. Burkholder, 

Brinton Baker, 

Joseph Badger, 

Milo E. Lawrence, 

Wm. H. Dugdale, 

O. S. Lynn, 

L. M. Hageman, 

Isaac N. Evans, 

John W. Berth, 

Caleb Paris, 

M. I. Loy, 

Frasser Brown, 

J. M. R. Cline, 

J. H. Armstrong, 

Wm. Armstrong, 

Joseph Baker, 

Wm. Baker, 

Thomas Batchelder, 
15 



James C. Brown, 
Zebulon Berth, 
John B. Cress, 
Hamilton Cross, 
Robert B. Carlisle, 
Patrick Cashin, 
Robert Cheeny, 
Jonathan Cline, 
J. F. Collier, 
H. J. Confer, 
John Crawford, 
Charles Creighton, 
Edward Cassady, 
Ripley J. Davis, 
Michael Dillon, 
John C. Elliot, 
Aaron H. Ellis, 
Jacob M. Ford, 
John Flatter, 
Robert Farris, 
Charles Field, 
O. T. Hale. 



Roster of 10th Ohio Battery. 



COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. 



Captain J. R. Grain, 

First Lieut. J. B. Gage, sr, V. E. 

First Lieut. James Gilmore, jr. 



Sec'd Lieut. -S. A. Galbreath, sr., 
Sec'd Lieut. J. C. Bontecon, jr., 



NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. 



First Serg't J. W. Randall, V. E., 
n. Master's Serg't Geo. Dasher, 
R. L. White, F. S., V. E., 
W. H. Byrd, F. S., V. E. 



X. Daron, F. S., V. E., 
Wm. Myers, F. S., V. E., 
George O. White, F. S., V. E., 
Joseph L. Gihiiore, F. S., V. F. 



CORPORALS. 



Gal. Swift, 

J. B. Marshall, 

P. G. Clevell, V. E., 

B. G. Johnson, V. E., 

John Kauffman, V. E., 

Wells Jones, V. E., 

John Sayers, 

Jacob King, 

(ieorge Went/, V. E. 



Wni. R. Ariluir, \'. E., 
Jolin M. Armstrong, 
Will. Andrew, 
I lenry 15oy!es, V. E., 



Andrew Sliafer, 
Jacob Beemer, V. E., 
Henry Owens, 

Artificer Jacob Wheeler, V. E. 
Artificer Wm. W. McFarland, 
Bugler ch. John G. Trimble, 
Bugler Gharles Mayc, 
Wagoner John VV. Friend, 



PRIVATES. 



James S. Heemes, 
Daniel Ikicklcy, 
Henry Betz, 1st, 
Heniy Betz, 2(L 



TENTH OHIO BATTERY. 



227 



Wm. Boelzner, 

Anthony Boehm, 

Wm. Broder, V. E., 

Herman Bolenhagen, V. E., 

Theodore Becker, 

Anton Brewer, 

John Bolander, 

Isaiah Cook, 

Wm. Cook, V. E., 

John A. Conger, 

Albert Cochran, V. E., 

Andrew Crissman, 

Wm. M. Daugherty, 

George R. Davis, 

Denis Delaney, 

Frank Ditmer, V. E., 

George E. Diprey, V, E,, 

Nicholas Dorn, 

Lewis Dixon, 

Gottfried Deckert, 

Wm. H. Ditton, 

Morris Davis, 

John F. Droste, 

John Eggert, V. E., 

Francis Ebert, 

Benjamin Farnsvvorth, V. E., 

Augustus Fisher, 

John T. Fishbaugh. 

Franklin Foughty, V. E., 

Filander Ford, 

Joseph Funk, 

John Fieber, 

Jacob Gift, 

Albert Gauss, 

Michael Geisel, V. E., 

Henry P. Gross, 

Nevin C. M. Hill, 

Herman Hayn, V. E., 



Wm. Harp, V. E., 

George Heller, 

Charles Hanway. 

Edward Humphreys, 

Charles HoUowell, 

Edwin Hollowell, 

Michael Helk, V. E., 

Wm. Heineke, V. E., 

Nicholas Hertent, 

John Irwin, 

George F. Johnson, 

Isaac Jolley, V. E., 

Henry P. Jones, 

James Judy, 

Peter Joute, 

John S. Kirkwood, V. E., 

Walter Keith, 

Frank Kaufifman, V. E.. 

Emil King, 

Ignatz Koch, 

Michael Von Kennen, V. E., 

Anthony Koenig, \'. E., 

Wm. Koebler, 

Frank Knauber, 

Milton P. Layman, 

John Lahey, V. E., 

Frederick Linderman, V. E., 

Frederick Maurer, V. E,, 

Jonathan McDormond, 

Myers Mitchel, 

John A. Mitchel, 

James C. Morgan, 

Adam Markley, V. E., 

George Moore, 

Frank Moline, 

George Metz, 

Henry Meyer, 

James Nesbit, 



228 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



Gustav Nolte, 

Philip Ott, 

Louis Philips, 

George Pfeifer, V. E., 

\Vm. Pritchard, 

Hiram Powers, 

Jeremiah Parsons, V. E., 

Charles S. Ramsey, 

Levi W. Robison, 

Andrew J. Rudduck, V. E., 

Levi Ringwalt, 

Dempster Randall, 

John W. Randall, V. E., 

George W. Randall, 

John Ruhle, 

Gotleib Reiner, 

James Ryan, 

Andrew Shimeal, V. E., 

Thomas C. Smith, V. E., 

George Smith, 

Jacob B. Smith, 

Henry C. Smith, 

George W. Shroude, V. E. 

Abraham Stout, 

Christopher Schrag, V. E., 

Frederick Supper. 



Joseph Shafer, 

Joseph Streble, 

Frank Schneider, V. E., 

Frederick Schaufert, 

John T. Stephens, 

John H. Simpson, V. E., 

Werner Schlumph, V. E., 

James A. Thomas, V. E., 

George Toy, 

Achabees Tarrant, 

George L. Townsley, 

Reese Underwood, 

Edward W. Vanhorn, 

Wm. Volk, V. E., 

George Verhr, 

George H. White, 

Samuel C. Wright, 

George Wehrley, V. E., 

Wm. M. Williams, V. E., 

John Wallanbauft, 

Conrad Weiss, V. E., 

Jacob Witsbn, 

Chares Weiland, 

Thomas E. White, 

Frederick Young, 



DIED IN SERVICE. 



Thomas Day, 
John Fulerton, 
James Guyton, 
Joseph Martins, 
Patrick Malone, 
Ezra T. Mitchner, 
Patrick Murphy. 



Levi Reams, 
Albert Sheldon, 
Adam Seifert, 
Amos Thompson, 
John F. Wilson, 
David Wright, 



TENTH OHIO BATTERY. 



229 



DESERTED. 



Jacob Barnhard, 
Solon Cook, 
Richard Giligan, 
Charles Hummel, 
Charles C. Irwin, 
Robert Morrison, 



\Vm. R. Rennard, 
Michael Mitchel, 
John Snodgrass, 
John Thompson, 
Frank Smith, 
Louis Tuge, 



DISCHARGED. 



Captain H. B. White, 

Captain Francis Seaman, 

Lieut. Frederick W. Bardwell, 

Lieut. A. A. Blount, 

Lieut. Edward Grosskopff, 

Lieut. Wm. T. Newcomb, 

Lieut. George Kleder, 

Lieut. Lanson Zane, 

First Serg't Charles S. Rice, 

First Serg't Wm. F. Nixon, 

Q. M. Serg't Abraham Hulsizer, 



Sergeant Levi Henderson, 
Sergeant Jonas Tease, 
Corporal Greenbury Milburn, 
Corporal Francis O'Shea, 
Corporal Pclegreno Tuchasey, 
Artificer John S. Owens, 
Artificer Mortimer Carey, 
Artificer ErasrAus Tulleys, 
Artificer Joseph Cline, 
Bugler Wm. H. Bretney, 



PRIVATES. 



Charles M. Adams, 
Henry K. Brown, 
James Brown, 
Samuel A. Barr, 
Isaiah L. Bottsford, 
Thomas Beacham, 
John Britton, 
Thomas Bush, 
Isaiah Cook, 
Philip Demer, 
John Dunson, 
Robert Dunson, 
JefF. C. Davis, 
John A. Davis, 



Wm. H. Elwell, 
Richard Ealey, 
Charles Fisher, 
Orlando V. Flora, 
Thomas Fitzgerrald, 
Thomas Fryar, 
Edward Gavin, 
Julius R. Gillett, 
John A. Goe, 
Wm. H. Grant, 
INIichael Hobran, 
Pat. Juge, 
Pat. Keating, 
David Kearns> 



230 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



John Kersliner, 
Daniel Kurtz, 
Samuel J. Knott, 
James Kitchen, 
Wm. Leslie, 
John C. Leibold, 
Snow. R. Laurance, 
Calvin Meachem, 
Augustus Machelite, 
George B. McPherson, 
Michael Murphy, 
Joseph J, Osborn, 
Mat. Pandegrast, 
B. F. Peck, 
John W. Randall, 
Dempster Randall, 
Densmore Randall, 
James Rix, 



Wm. Ryan, 
Richard Sparrow, 
Jacob Switzer, 
John W. Shumaker, 
Benjamin P. .Scott, 
John Scott, 
Batz Spicemaker, 
Reuben Savage, 
Philo M. Swift, 
Samuel Stevens, 
Emsley D. Smith, 
Henry Vanmeter, 
Nathan Wike, 
George S. Wright, 
Fred Weber, 
David Wall, 
Jacob Wilhelm, 
James Worthington. 



TRANSFERS.— Vet. Res. Corps. 



George Cave, 
James K. Frazier, 
Joseph Hargrave, 



Wm. H. Levan, 
Lucius Luce, 
James O. Salesbury. 



UNDER-COOKS. 



Edward Kenedy, 
James McIVTillen, 
James Sykes. 



Ed vSpencer, 

Charles Helm, officer's servant, 



Roster of 154th Regiraent. 



Colonel Robert Stevenson, 
Lieut. Colonel E. Wilson, 
Major Wm. A. Neil, 
Surgeon George Watt, 
Ass't Surgeon Leigh McClung, 
Quartermaster A, L. Trader. 



Adjutant J. 13. Hagan, 
Chaplain Robert Caslin, 
Serg't Major Linus P. Bonner, 
Commissary Serg't Henry Miller, 
Commissary Serg't L. Paine, 



CO]S£I»A^]SrY J^. 



Captain James B. Corry, 
First Lieut. John L Heinz, 
Second Lieut. Jasper W. Reed, 
Sergeant Pierce Folkerth, 
Second Serg't Sam'l W. Cox, jr., 
Third Serg't Charles Shaw, 
Fourth Serg't John Hume, 
Fifth Serg't Joseph R. Bull, 
Corporal Isaac A. Furguson, 
Second Corporal Henry Cony, 
Third Corporal George B. Hyde, 
Fourth Corporal M. Musselman, 
Fifth Corporal C. B. Lewis, 
Sixth Corporal S. J. Ward, 
Seventh Corporal B. R. Gass, 
Eighth Corporal James Gregg, 
Drum Major Julius Cone, 
Fifer Alburton F. LLopkins, 
Andrew Armstrong, 
Robert Armstrong, 



Wm. Brewer, 
David R. Brewer, 
Joseph Baldwin, 
George Baker, 
John Birch, 
Newton A. Brown, 
Walter Blaisdell, 
Wm. Baker, 
Sylvester B. Bloomfield, 
John H. Barton, 
James H. Baker, 
George Carlisle, 
Ira Collier, 
James D. Currie, 
Wm. R. Corey, 
Cornelius Crist, 
Wm. Cleveland, 
Isaac H. Crowell, 
Wm. B. Cornwell, 
Wm. H. H, Deming, 



232 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



Chauncy W. Deming, 
Andrew Dodds, 
Jonathan Folck, 
Patrick Fogerty, 
Kimball Farmer, 
Cyrus Hurch, 
Silas Hopping, 
Moses Hopping, 
John W. Hamilton, 
Wm. Hafner, 
Charles Flarlan, 
Elmer B. Hopkins*, 
Wilson A. Hopkins, 
James Harris, 
Daniel A. Jobe, 
Augustus H. Jones, 
Baker Jones, 
David Kershner, 
Nathaniel King, 
Charles Knott, 
Philip Kennedy, 
Theodore Leonard, 
Edgar Lefever, 
Samuel McColloch, 
James C. Miller, 



James Nevins, 
John Nickols, 
Joel B. Record, 
Andrew J. Smith, 
Abram Sweny, 
Wm. R. Sloane, 
Russel Tulley, 
Joseph M. C. Wilson, 
Wm. L. Wilson, 
P'rank Wilder, 
Daniel Wilson, 
Pardon C. Wilson, 
Hiatt Welliston, 
James F. Lynn, 
Ezra B, Lewis, 
Richard McCullough, 
Joel Wilder, 
George Town, 
Abram Pearson, 
Augustus S. Hildreth, 
Abraham Johnson, 
Leonard Mower, 
Johnson Weakly, 
P'rederick Mars, 
James McNeal. 



COJMr'A^NY B. 



Captain A. C. Miller, 

First Lieut. J. H. Matthews, 

Second Lieut. Oscar Pool, 

W. B. Smith, 

P. L. McDowald, 

C. Taylor, 

R. F. Marshall, 

J. P. Poland, 

M. F. Anderson, 

L. King, 



P. L. Davis, 
W. M. Beveridge, 
George Lauman, 
E. C. Hamilton, 
C. L Nesbitt, 
G. R. Gibney, 
J. D. Allen, 
Wm. Alberger, 
Wm. Anderson, 
J. L. Alexander, 



THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOURTH. 



233 



G. M. Boyd, 
R. F. Buckles, 
Wm, Brown, 
H. E. Barlow, 

B. Y. Berry, 
George Beal, 
Robert Boyce, 
George H. Crabb, 
D. i\I. Charters, 
Nathame Collins, 

A. Cross, 
M. Cook, 

C. E. Case, 
Dan Dean, 
S. C. Elwell, 
J. Erwin, 

J. Ewing, jr., 

B. F. Good, 

D. A. Grug, 

F. C. Hicks, 

J. A. Harbison, 
George Haliday, 
James Hays, 
A. Kelley, 
H. B. Kepler, 
O. Miller, 

E. L. Moorehouse, 
J. E. Martin, 

O. W. Marshall, 

G. W. Manor, 
J. A. Miller, 
R. F. Martin, 
S. Marshall, 
Wm. Milbourne, 
D. G. Martin, 

J. G. McWhirk, 
H. McFadden, 
Thomas Moore, 



J. H. Miller, 

G. W. Neville, 

Samuel Newton, 

A. C. Neal, 

S. G. Oakley, 

E. C. Paine, 

G. L. Paine, 

R. H. C. Parcell, 

Wm. Pettigrew, 

Jerry Parkhill, 

Charles Robinson, 

M. W. Roberts, 

Joseph Slipp, 

E. W. Shane, 

H. B. Syeney, 

Frank Sweet, 

A. L. Smith, 

Nat H. Stutsman, 

Lon Snively, 

S. L. Taylor, 

J. M. Thirkiekl, 

W. W. Torrence,. 

Mark Ullery, 

R. B. Williams, 

J. E. Wright, 

D. Williams, 

John Blessing, 

Wm. Hamilton, 

Thomas T. Harrington. 

Uriah Horney, 

Folger Howell, 

H. B. Plopping, 

John F. Hopping, 

H. C. Johnson, 

D. C. Laurence, 

A. Lafferty, 

J. M. McLane, 

Alexander McLane, 



234 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



J. C. McFarland, 
Aaron Milburn, 
\Vm. M. McFarland, 
Martin McClelland, 
F. A. McKinney, 
Martin Musselman, 
J. O. McCIintic, 
Ira K. Minton, 
Thomas Xesbett, 
George B. Patterson, 
Wni. Potter, 
Michael Raper, 
W. Sherrer, 
Charles H. Srouf, 



J. N. Saum, ^ 

S. I. Sanders, 
George W. Shroad, 
Samuel Sparrow, 
Wm. Stark, 
Sanford Wilson, 
Leonodas Wilson, 
H. D. Wise, 
David J. Wise, 
Samuel Wise, « 
George O. White, 
Calvin Williams, 
Martin Whalen, 
Wm. H. Wricrht. 



CO]VlF^]SrY D. 



Captain Henry B, Guthrie, 
First Lieut. George C. Canfield, 
Second Lieut. Benj. F. Darst, 
Silas B. Shaner, 
John R. Ridenhour, 
Thomas Hal^^'erstick, 
A. B. Cosier, 
George A. Harner, 
Joseph Swaynee, 
Henry C. Glotfelter, 
Albert Swadner, 
Harvey Helmer, 
James Marshall, . 

John Archer, 
Samuel H. Boroff, 
Albert Haynes, 
Cyrus Beackem, 
Joseph J. Osburn, 
Thomas Archer, 
Isaac Ankeny, 
Jacob Ankeny, 



Alexander Anderson, 
Henry J. Borofif, 
W^ilson S. Bumgardner, 
David A. Brewer, 
David Bopp, 
Joseph Benham, 
Wm, H. Brown, 
John W. Benson, 
Adam R. Bickett, 
Edward Beal, 
Harvey Bickett, 
Reuben B. Carley, 
Wm. G. Cory, 
James W. Collins, 
James M. Collins, 
James Carvon, 
David R. Colwell, 
John Frost, 
Andrew P'isher, 
Harry Furguson, 
John Fields, 



THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOURTH. 



235 



David Fields, 
George W. Gross, 
Wm. H. Huston, 
Samuel Harner, 
John Haynes, 
John H. Hyland, 
Henry Harman, 
Will Hayes, 
George Hendrick, 
John W, Haverstick, 
Wm. J. Haverstick, 
Hiram Irvin, 
John W. Irvin, 
James E. Junkins, 
George W. Gerner, 
Powell Lamme, 
Timothy Linebaugh, 
Charles Lodbetter, 
Steven McClain, 
Burgess Morgan. 



Joel F. Needles, 
Michael H. Powers, 
Samuel V. Prather, 
John Ritchie, 
Andrew Reader, 
Adolphus Stevenson, 
Jacob S. Swainey, 
Solomon Sheeley, 
Jackson Sidensticker, 
Andrew J. Sutton, 
John Swaime, 
Isaac Shew, 
Isaac Sv/adner, 
Jonathan Story, 
W. H. Scott, 
David W. Wolf, 
Wm. H. Wolf, 
Abram M. Wolf, 
Henry Weinreich, 



CO]Sd:]P^^lSJY E 



Captain Joseph F. Bouck, 
First Lieut. Benj. H. Barney, 
Second Lieut. John W. Tobias, 
First Sergeant John E. Felton, 
Second Serg't O. H. P. Moler, 
Third Serg't Mark Xewland, 
Fourth Serg't Jacob L. Land, 
Fifth Serg't Neal Zimmerman, 
Corporal Levi T, Nagle, 
Second Corp. vSam'I H. Prather, 
Third Corp. Wm. Haverstick, 
Fourth Corp. C. M. Galloway, 
Fifth Corp. Sampson Cosad, 
Sixth Corp. Paris H. Peterson, 
Seventh Corp. S. H. Harshman, 



Eighth Corp. Simon Gast, 

Noah Aley, 

Levi D. Aley, 

Wesley Blessing, 

David H. Baker, 

Jacob L. Broadstone, 

Albert T. Bush, 

Aaron Cory, 

Benjamin F, Cory, 

Wm. S. Chany, 

Joseph Cover, 

Henry J. Cory, 

Valentine Coy, 

John Carter, -^ 

Thomas W. Carson, 



236 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



James Dinwiddle, 
Wm. H. Eiigle, 
Milfon Fookes, 
Henry Fishenig, 
Jacob Garst, 
John W. Gordon, 
John W. Haverstick, 



Sylvester Haus, 
Jacob Helmer, 
John M. Hawker, 
Montgomery Harsh man, 
John Haus, 
John I. Hook, 
John O. Harnian. 



COjSlF^ISrY F. 



Captain Richard King, 
Daniel McMillen, 
Jesse R. Marshall, 
John W. Manor, 
Daniel P. Jeffries, 
Wm. M. North, 
John S. Watts, 
Joshua Jackson, 
John R. Gowdy, 
Chapel H. Winter, 
Hugh M. Andrew, 
Daniel M. Stewart, 
Wm. McClelland, 
James G. Stevenson, 
Albert Marshall, 
Albert Stra'tton, 
Oliver Bayle.^s, 
Samuel J. Andrew, 
Dan Baker, 
George H. Bay less, 
Ambrose Beal, 
Isaac S. Bond, 
Erastus Bonner, 
Linus. P. Bonner, 
Edward M. Bonner, 
Edward A. Binkley, 
John H. Bratton, 



John G. Brown, 
James S. Buck, 
Robert A. Buck, 
Wm. H. Corey, 
Albert Collier, 
Thornton Collier, 
George W, Cosby, 
Jeremiah E. Cosby,, 
John Charters, 
Michael Day, 
Wm. Findley, 
Henry P. Galloway, 
James H. Gowdy, 
Joseph C. Cartrell, 
Wm. S. Galvin, 
Wm. Graham, 
Thomas Ginn, 
James M. Hawkins, 
Wm. H. Hutchison, 
James Hart, 
Edward Hicks, 
Luther Haines, 
Jacob James, 
Samuel A. Kendall, 
John W. King, 
James B. King, 
A. IL Kirkpatrick, 



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237 



George McGaughey, 
Isaac McElwaine, 
James W. McDaniel, 
Charles R. Milburn, 
John Menmues, 
James Menmues, 
John Maxwell, 
Wm. H. Pierce, 
James P. Pierce, 
Joseph Ray, 
Orville Read, 
Elijah B. Reeves, 
Adam Russel, 
James M. Stratton, 
James R. Stewart, 
Frederick Shoemaker, 
David W. Shoemaker, 



George Shoemaker, 
Jacob Smith, 
Isaac Shearer, 
Jacob H. Snell, 
Harrison Snyder, 
Franklin B. Taylor, 
Wm, C. Winter, 
Alexander J. C. Wead, 
James C. T. Wead, 
Jackson Whiliman, 
John Warnock, 
Wilson H. Wilson, 
John Watson, 
Wm. Watson, 
Steven Warwick, 
Benjamin F. Jameay, 
Wm. A. Robertson. 



COlSlFJ^N^L G. 



John W. Hepfard, 
Ben H. Hontop, 
Wm. Hawker, 
Wm. John, 
Douglas E. King, 
Joseph H. Cable, 
George C. Koogler, 
Samuel B. Kelly, 
Wm. Lesher, 
John Lents, 
David R. Lesher, 
Wm. Leonard, 
David Lindsey, 
John Miller, 
John Mallow, 
John Mcintosh, 
Albert Owens, 
John L. Peterson, 



Elias Quinn, 
John Reeker, 
John Rolms, 
Robert Ritharson, 
George Richarson, 
David Sherman, 
Francis P. Stull, 
Peter Swagard, 
Emance Snyder, 
John A. Stewart, 
Aaron Shingledecker, 
James M. C. Stewart, 
Samuel H. Strickle, 
John Srobel, 
Edward Stine, 
Wm. Smith, 
Wm. T. Tobias, 
Harris Truber, 



238 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



Wm. Troop, 
Daniel F. Weaver, 
John D. Yingleng, 
John Yales, 
J. W. HalL 
Michael Ford, 
Ezra Davidson, 
John A. Seiss, 
D. H. Williamson, 
John F. Daugherty, 
George Truman, 
Wm. Kirkpatrick, 
Charles Gage, 
Levi Ridple, 
Christopher Bingaman, 
Frederick Spellbring, 
Jerry H. Gest, 
Michael Daugherty, jr., 
Wm. Anderson, 
James Stantield, 
Robert Hamilton,' 
Henry O. Barnett, 
James R. Anderson, 
Abijeuh Anderson, 
Philip P. Anderson, 
Charles Austin, 
Nathan Anderson, 
Abner Bingamon, 
James Broadstone, 
David Bingamon, 
David Borden, 
Benjamin F. Chamblis, 
George W. Curvault, 
George Collier, 
H*. W. Cheny, 
Warren Chany, 
Joseph Day, 
Samuel L. Disbro, 



Peter Dunnevant, 
Joseph C. Evans, 
Wm. Elam, 
Josiah Elam, 
Wm. S. Frazier, 
Wm. D. Fowler, 
Albert Gest. 
Lounal Griswold, 
Mathew H. Gage, 
That Holland, 
Hugh W. Harper, 
James E. Haus, 
Franklin Holt, 
James Kennedy, 
Tillman Loyd, 
James M. Luce, 
Orrin Morris, 
Frank McFerrim, 
W. H, McClelland, sr., 
Wm. IL McClelland, jr. 
George Maconbrie, 
John Mendenhall, 
Thomas P. Mendenhall, 
John B. Mason, 
Francis M. Moffit, 
Benjamin T. Norman, 
Isaac Oldham, 
Thomas Pottinger, 
John Power, 
Wm, H. Perrine, 
Cyrus Read, 
Wm. B. Reige, 
Robert W. Riddle, 
John Ryan, 
John M. Sanders, 
Samuel Stan field, 
Daniel S. Slump, 
Daniel Salsbury, 



THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOURTH. 



239 



Ryan Saulsberry, 
George R. Stiles, 
Isaac Stiles, 
Wm. I. Stump, 
Joseph C. Sims, 
Wm. Stanfield, 



Benjama Speer, 
James S. Talbert, 
John Taylor, 
George B. Talbert, 
Joseph Wilds, 
John M. Wright. 



COjVIF^lSrY H. 



Joel Arey, 
Lucian Smith, 
James Thomas, 
Jacob^ Simons, 
Carpenter Conklin, 
Isaiah Mullen, 
D. I. Browder, 
Hi ram Powers, 
Wm. Weller, 
John McGregor, 
Wm. Gordam, 
Platte E. Mott, 
George Powers, 
Jacob P. Brown, 
Daniel M. St. John, 
James Mullen, 
Wm. H. Arnold, 
John Andrew, 
•Joshua Arnett, 
Harmon Ary, 
Joshua Bayliff, 
I. W. Beason, 
Lewis Bartin, 
Levi Bortem, 
Marshall Brinell, 
W. C. Brinell, 
Wm. D. Bone, 
Peter Bun, 



David Bush, 
Solomon Bargdell, 
Samuel Curl, 
W. H. Campell, 
Hiram Conklin, 
Elijah S. Coat, 
Isaac Cohagan, 
James H. Crusew, 
Samuel Devo, 
Elisha Ellis, 
Samuel Ellis, 
John Irvin, 
Allen Faulkner, 
Lewis Faucett, 
Nathan Fisher, 
Simon H. Fudge, 
Dwight K. Frost, 
Henry Goram, 
Wm. A. Harris, 
John A. Hickmar, 
Napoleon B. Harris, 
David F. Flickmar, 
Francis M. Harness, 
James T. Hite, 
James ^L Linkhart, 
Franklin Lucas, 
Edward Linkhart, 
John McElwain, 



240 



GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



Calvin Mullem, 
John March, 
Harvey Murphy, 
Lewis Mullin, 
R. McCoUough, 
Joshua P. Oglesbee, 
Asa R. Olehant, 
James S. Peterson, 
Adam H. Pahner, 
Allen Powers, 
Adam Powell, 
John N. Peterson, 
James H. Stillings, 
Poley C. Siles, 
Charles W. St. John, 



Wesley Stevans, 
Alonzo C. Smith, 
Wilson St. John, 
Silas Shoemaker, 
John B. Spencer, 
Charles Shipman, 
John F. Sutto;i, 
James Thomas, 
James Wilson, 
Albert Wickersham, 
Clinton Williams, 
George Bragg, 
Henry Conklin, 
John S. McGregor, 
James Stipe. 



Roster of 54th Reg-iment. 



Michael Bradley, 
George Marshall, 
John Robinson, 
John Goldsberry, 
Otway Owens, 
Richard Campion, 
16 



Wm. Connor, 
Wm. Beall, 
Charles F. Beall, 
James W. Beall, 
Albert Black, 
L. Maddox. 



Roster of 34th Regiraent. 



Captain S. R. S. West, 
First^Lieut. Albert Nesbitt, 
Second Lieut. A. S. Frazer, 
Orderly Serg't Frank Millward, 
Sergeant^I. C. Hutchins, 
Sergeant N. P. Marvell, 
Sergeant H. J, Marshall, 
Sergeant C. L. McClure, 
Corporal|John Tarbox, 



Corporal J. A. McNichols, 
Corporal E. D. Roberts, 
Corporal John H. Placke, 
Corporal F. A. Austin, 
Corporal John H. McCurren, 
Corporal Staley F. Stemble, 
Corporal James Benson, 
Fifer Dwight K. Frost, 
Drummer Wm. Thompson, 



PRIVATES. 



Wm. R. Adams, 
Theodore C. Aarons, 
George W. Atchley, 
Wm. H. Austin, 
Thomas Ball, 
Dudley W. Beall, 
Lewis Beall, 
Matthew Bigger, 
James R. Bull, 
John W. Cartwright, 
Edward Clevell, 
Simon Cook, 
Ed. M. Cordle, 
Frank Curl, 
Wm. Davis, 
Wm. Delahunt, 
Anthony Ebleheart, 
George W. Ebright, 



John M. Ford, 
James I. Fulton, 
Theodore Guggenheimer, 
F. G. Hale, 
Wm. Harris, 
Theodore Harrison, 
Morton L. Hawkins, 
Wm. C. Higginson, 
John F. E. Hillen, 
Wm. Hitzing, 
Wm. H. Hull, 
Aust. M. Kelly, 
Wm. H. King, 
Wm. H. Kinnan, 
Alex. C. Kyle, 
John M. Lawrie, 
Benjamin H. Likens, 
John W. Logan, 



THE THIRTY-FOURTH. 



243 



George Lowe, 
Wm. L. Luark, 
John Mehen, 
Edgar Mehen, 
Wm. Meshwert, 
Randolph Metcalf, 
Ben. F. Mullen, 
Willis D. McDonald, 
Robert E. McCormick, 
Napoleon McGrew, 
Wm. H. Newbold, 
John W. Puckham, 
Wm. A. Patterson, 
Valentine Percifield, 
Alva L. Peters, 
Jason D. Phillips, 
James M. Rhodes, 
Asa D. Robbins, 
Milton Rogers, 
Peter Rollar, 
Wm. F. Rosenbarger. 



John Sachs, 
Perraetus K. Sale, 
Wesley D. Sebring, 
Charles Shinkle, 
John W. Shorten, 
Henry S. Shue, 
John W. Smith, 
Ed. H, Stevens, 
J. C. Stewart, 
Andrew Stires, 
Daniel Stratton, 
Wm. Strohmeir, 
A. B. Swenk, 
James A. Thompson, 
Innis A. Townsley, 
James W. Watson, 
John Williams, 
James B. Winter, 
John G. Winter, 
J. G, Worthington, 



Roster of 184tli Regiment. 



Colonel Henry S. Comager, Ass'tSurg. Rob't A. Richardson, 

Lieut. Col. Chandler W. Carroll, Ass't Surgeon Henry H. Shaw, 

Major E. S. Dodd, Ass't Surgeon Emmet W. Price, 
Surgeon L. G. Meyer. 

CAPTAINS. 

Levi S. Jamison, Wm. J. Widener, 

Joseph Allen, Luman P. P. Folkerth, 

Joseph W. Wise, Simon Perkins, 

J. D. Moler, John McNeil, 

George P. Davis, James Barrett. 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS. 

George A. Ells, Charles W.- Gerwig, 

Alex M. Duck, Robert Detwiler, 

Jerome Dubois, Joseph McCreary, 

David A. Murphy, Henry C. Canfield, 

John Ciller, Wm. H. Bettis, 
Joseph A. Blair. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS. 

Harry Davis, Michael Steck, 

Hiram Reed, P^rank Hatton, 

Alonzo Langdon, Wm. F. Langdon, 

Charles E. Warren, John W. Horton, 

Harrison P. Taylor, David H. Comager. 



THE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOURTH. 



245 



COJMLT'J^N^ K. 



Sam Cox, 
AV. A. Hopkins, 
Robert Armstrong, 
Andrew Armstrong, 
Cyrus Hush, 
Frank Wilder, 
John Hume, 
Wm. M. King, 
James Stratton, 
Isaac Stratton, 
James Kershner, 
David Connor, 
Wm. Connor, 
Nathan King, 
Dan Shafer, 
Jerry Shafer, 
Wm. Baker, 
James Caldwell, 
George Carlisle, 
Joseph S. Wilson, 
John Huston, 
Frank Shroaf, 
Johnson Weakly, 
Albert Kelly, 



John Schulnerer, 
I. T. Confer, 
Abram Reed, 
Wm. Dugan, 
Elmer Hopkins, 
J. R. Record, 
Nathaniel Collins, 
Frank McCreary, 
James Bailey, 
J. T. Collett, 
Mike Bradley, 
Jesse Record, 
Samuel Clark, 
Wm. Kiler, 
George Kiler, 
Charley Brewer, 
John Brewer, 
Thomas Toole, 
Pat Abbey, 
Moses Hopping, 
A. Collins, 
John Skellen, 
Snoden Lawrence, 



Roster of 3d N. Y. Calvary, 



James L. Lantz, Harvey E. Randall, 

L. H. Whiteman, Gustave Schilling, 

Jerry L. Whiteman, James Rickets, 

Theodore Collier, Andrew Hutchinson, 

D. D. Barns, John Q. A. Goe, 

W. V. Lawrence, C. C. Robinson, 

John T. Hogue, Hank B. Keplar, 

W. A. Bitner, • Joseph M, Barlow. 

George W. Bitner. 



Roster of 1st Ohio Reg". Inf 'y. 



COMF^NY E. 



Lieutenant S. Ewing, 
L. H. Boots, 
Thomas Curl, 
J. M. Jones, 
Isaac Rudduck, 
Joseph Cummings, 
James Harris, 
Robert Cross, 
Mike Geisner, 
Martin Buckly, 
John Cain, 



Mike Brennen, 
Joshua Jones, 
John Bailey, 
John Kisan, 
Mitchel Beason, 
James Sheppard, 
Robert Jones, 
Wm. Moses, 
Levi Sleigle, 
John Skellon, 
James Tharpe. 



ERRATA. 

Officers of Company E., Seventy-Fourth Regiment, O. V. I. 



The following officers were overlooked in furnishing roster 
to the printer, hence their appearance here : 

Captain Joseph Fisher, Second Lieut. Thomas Kirby, 

First Lieut. H. H. Herring, First Sergeant Peter O. Benham, 

First Lieut. B. F. Shickley. 



Anecdotes and Incidents. 



PRACTICAL JOKING. 

Sometimes the boys would indulge in playing tricks on each 
•other. I will give an incident or two : One time, soon after 
the battle of Stone River, while we were yet occupying the old 
Sibley tents, the boys concluded that they would have a little 
sport at the expense of one of their comrades; accordingly they 
arranged to have some singing, one evening, in one of the tents. 
They came in until the tent was pretty nearly full. They placed 
a stool near the middle of the tent, to which they invited the 
singer — having previously placed some cartridges under the 
seat. The singer took his seat, and alter singing one or two 
songs, which were loudly encored, which was to produce the 
impression that there was no trick in it, one of the boys called 
for the song of "Reuben Wright and Phebe Brown." and at 
the verse where the old man shot at Reuben, which was the 
signal, one of the boys set fire to the cartridges, which lifted 
stool, singer and all, about two feet high, singeing his hair and 
whiskers, and filling the tent with smoke. When it cleared 
away there was not a man to be seen, they having taken to their 
heels, leaving the poor fellow without an audience. It is unnec- 
essary to add that the entertainment was suddenly brought to a 
close. The victim of the above joke was the author of this 
book. The boys acknowledged, however, that they carried the 
joke a little too far, there being more powder than they thought 



250 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

there was. It was a long time before I found out who ignited the 
cartridges. If I had known it then I would have made it pretty 
hot for them ; but then everybody was ignorant of who did it. 

Another practical joke was perpetrated on a couple of the 
boys who were bunking together. It was while we were on the 
march one evening, late. Just before we halted there was the 
appearance of a heavy rain coming up. We halted on the side 
of the hill, and commenced putting up our shelter-tents. After 
erecting the tents we then had to dig trenches around them to 
keep the water from running through them. It soon commenced 
raining, and rained very hard. The two boys whom I men- 
tioned had their tent just below one of the boys, who was a 
very mischievous fellow, full of fun, and, by the way, a good- 
hearted fellow and a good soldier. Jim got up, and procuring a 
shovel, succeeded in turning the water into the aforesaid boys' 
tent, completely deluging them with water, and causing them to 
get up and move their tent to a drier spot, and to use expletives 
not very orthodox. Although the joker did it at the expense of 
getting completely drenched himself, when the boys emerged 
from their tent Jim was apparently sound asleep in his own. 

Another time, while we were on the march, we had halted 
in the edge of the wood, by the roa;dside, for dinner. I think 
this was a forced march, and we had only time to eat a lunch. A 
joke was played on our captain. He was sitting on the ground, 
leaning against a tree, eating his lunch froai his haversack. One 
of the boys had caught a lizard — a harmless little reptile, found 
in the South — and slipping up behind the captain put it into his 
haversack. He put his hand into the sack for a hard tack, 
when, feeling something cold, he withdrew his hand very sud- 
denly, while at the same time his face became as red as a beet, 
and demanded, in not very soft language, who the perpetrator 
was; but no one knew anything about it — all were very busy 
devouring their luncheons. 



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Practical joking was not always very safe, as it came very- 
near costing one man his life. One night, after the sentinels 
had been posted, a certain corporal thought he would scare one 
of the guards — who was considered not very bright — by ap- 
proaching him, and trying to make him believe he was a rebel, 
demanding his gun. But the fellow was not so dumb as he 
thought he was. He halted him, but paying no attention to 
him kept on advancing, when the sentinel drew up his gun, and 
was about to let him have the contents, when he had to make 
himself known by giving the countersign. 

Another incident happened, but not exactly of the same 
nature. Two soldiers concocted a plan to pass out through the 
lines one night. They were to get down on all fours, and root 
and grunt like a hog. One of them started in advance, and 
succeeded in passing the sentinel apparently unobserved. The 
other, emboldened by the success of his comrade, attempted the 
same feat. He had got about half way through in the same, 
manner, when the guard suddenly whirled around, with the 
exclamation "that there were too many doggone hogs around," 
and at the same time striking our hero fairly in the side with a 
stone, laying him out for a few minutes. The guard became 
alarmed, rushing up to him, said, "Jake, I threw harder than I 
intended; I knew it was you all the time." Jake concluded that 
he was not a very good hog after all. 



SHERIDAN'S RIDE. 

It was the night before the battle of Cedar Creek. In the 
war office at Washington sat Mr. Stanton in close conversation, 
with General Phil. Sheridan. There were some grave questions 
being discussed between them, for the talk lasted long after 
midnight, Gtiiieral Thomas T. Eckert, superintendent of mil- 



2b2 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

itary telegraph lines, was in an adjoining room, watching for 
sounds of alarm from the front, or important telegrams from any 
of the advancing armies in the field. A new day was fast 
approaching the dawn, and tlie war minister and the general still 
continued their earnest conversation. A click of the instrument 
caught General Eckert's ear. It was Winchester calling the war 
office. His skilled hand touched the key in ready response, and 
a moment later the words came : 

"There is danger here. Hurry Sheridan to the front." 
Quick as a flash the message was handed to the two men m 
the next room in close conversation about the campaign in the 
Shenandoah Valley. Sheridan went to the instrument, and 
there was a moment of hurried talk over the wires between him 
and his headquarters, when Secretary Stanton gave directions to 
General Eckert to telegraph the railroad authorities of the Balti- 
more & Ohio to clear the road, and to at once provide relays of 
special engines to take Sheridan to the scene of the coming battle 
as fast as steam could carry him. General Eckert worked the 
■wire himself, and gave hurried directions to the railroad officials 
as to what to do in this emergency. While he sat with his hand 
on the key, perfecting the train arrangements, Stanton and 
Sheridan had a few hurried final words, each countenance bear- 
ing the marks of earnestness, not unmingled with anxiety. The 
train schedule was soon made, Sheridan left the war office, and 
was driven to the station with all possible speed. A panting 
-engine had just backed in as he arrived, and jumping aboard, 
.the engineer, instructed to make the Relay House in the shortest 
possible time, pulled the starting bar, and away sped the train. 
It had a clear track, and reached its destination — thirty miles 
away — in much less than an hour. Here an engine of the 
main line stood waiting to take him to Harper's Ferry — 
seventy miles beyond. There were no obstructions all the way 
up. Every moving train had been side-tracked, and every 



ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS. 353. 

Other precaution taken to prevent accident to the on-rushing 
engine bearing Sheridan to the camp where his army lay. While- 
this train was making its run all was anxiety in the war office. 
Every telegraph station reported its progress to General Eckert, 
and he to Secretary Stanton, who still lingered, that he might 
know when Sheridan reached his destination. 

AT harper's ferry. 

Three hours passed — dull, anxious hours to those waitings 
every moment of • which seemed laden with lead. Harper's- 
Ferry at last reports Sheridan's arrival, and a fresh engine stood 
ready to take him to Winchester — thirty miles up the valley. 
Not a moment is lost at the hamlet among the rocks, when Sher- 
idan boards the waiting messenger, and an hour later word 
speeds over the wires: "Sheridan just reached Winchester. " 
The run had been made in the quickest time ever known on the 
road, and the worn and anxious officials at the war office 
breathed a sigh of relief as the click of the telegraph announced 
that the journey had been completed. 

Eighteen, or perhaps twenty, miles of turnpike stretched 
away up the charming valley that had been made desolate by 
the torch and tramp of armies. As that charmir.g region, clad 
in the garb of summer, lay between the mountains, its bright 
colors reflected in the rays of beautiful sunshine, it was but a 
sad reminder of the once great granary that for more than three 
years of conflict had furnished untold supplies to the Confederate 
army. Sheridan liad laid it waste. He had clinched with and 
beaten Early at Winchester, and while he was being carried with 
all possible speed back to the scenes of his operations, the tide 
of battle was ebbing and flowing upon a new field, and the fate 
of the day hung trembling in the balance. For several weary, 
doubtful hours the two armies had been in deadly conflict. 
When Sheridan arrived at Winchester the roar of artillery and 



254 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

the roll of musketry could be distinctly heard from the field of 
carnage along Cedar Creek. Down the valley came the awful 
din, echoing louder and louder through the still summer air as 
the battle grew fiercer. 

There was but short delay at Winchester, the chief town in 
the lower valley. There Sheridan mounted his favorite war 
horse, a large, beautiful, sinewy, black charger, who had borne 
his master through the heat of many conflicts. He is dead now, 
and his body has been preserved, that men yet to come may 
see the animal whose endurance has been recorded in verse. 
Through the town and out over the turnpike which leads up the 
Shenandoah, Sheridan rode. Who, knowing the man, or aught 
of his character, can not picture the restless rider urging his 
horse to the best to reach the field where the fate of his army 
was still pending in the hazard of war? He had only covered a 
few miles, when the moving mass of debris, that always surges 
to the rear of a battle-field, when the conflict is severe and 
doubtful, met his trained eye, and told more plainly than words 
what was going on in front. It was a signal of distress, and 
none knew it better than he. The sight fired his heart anew, 
and only added fresh impetus to his foaming horse. He reached 
the field after a sleepless night and a terrific journey, and the 
battle of Cedar Creek was won. 

MR. Murdoch's letter. 

This is the true story of Sheridan's ride — I might almost 
say official story. If he did not stop to gather the stragglers, as 
a poet's license has pictured, he did carry back the tide that was 
floating to the rear, because his presence had given fresh stamina 
to some wavering battalions. The manner of the man, his dash 
and courage, his reputation and successes, all combined to give 
heart to those who drifted back, believing the battle had been lost. 



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I have been sitting face to face to day, the whole afternoon, 
with the man who vouches for the above-written words. He is 
a strong, positive character, just passing three score and ten years 
crowded with wonderful experiences. As he told this story he 
warmed with the fire of the event, and his blood was hot with 
indignation, for he had just read a statement that Sheridan got 
drunk at Winchester, and did not go to the battle field, where 
the poet's pen has pictured him. 

" Ah, but I'll put an end to all cavil about this story," said 
he, ''what I have told you I got directly from General Eckert 
himself, who sat with his hand on the key, arranged and watched 
every stage of Sheridan's ride from Washington to Cedar Creek. 
He now manages the Western Union Telegraph Company, and 
will bear witness to these facts. But I have a letter from Sheri- 
dan. He and I were then, and are now, friends. When I 
heard of the ride I wrote to ask him about it, and to inquire if I 
had not ridden the same horse that carried him up the valley 
while with him at Chattanooga. Mr. Murdoch soon found 
among his papers the identical letter which General Sheridan 
wrote in reply. 

"I need not tell you how highly it is prized," said the 
veteran, ''for you will see how carefully it has been kept 
through all these years." 

Who is there who has read this country's history that 
does not know James E. Murdoch — the actor, the reader, the 
man. It is he who tells this story and furnishes this cHnching 
evidence of the truthful foundation of T. Buchanan Read's 
poem. Thousands who have watched his matchless representa- 
tion of Hamlet, or sat under the spell of his dramatic readings, 
will be glad to know that, although he is passing seventy-three, 
he is still in excellent health and spirits. He is a tall, robust 
man, with a clean shaven face, that shows the broad, distinct 
lines of his strong countenance to the best advantage. His 



256 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. . 

wealth of iron gray hair, and his general carriage, combine ta 
make him a very striking character. 

"Although an old man when the war was going on, he 
spent a great deal of time with the army, in connection with the 
sanitary commission and in the hospitals. He was a favorite at 
the head-quarters of many generals, and witnessed a great deal 
of the inner features of army life. 

THE POEM SUGGESTED. 

The story of Sheridan's ride, above written, was but a 
tithe of the good things he told me. The recital of this matter 
naturally led up to all the incidents connected with it. 

" I was not with Sheridan," he said, " at this time, but was 
at the head-quarters of the Army of the Cumberland. Soon 
after the battle of Cedar Creek I came up to Cincinnati, and 
was visiting Mr. Cyrus Garrett, whom we called ' Old Cyclops.' 
He was T. Buchanan Read's brother-in-law, and with him the 
poet made his home. The ladies of Cincinnati had arranged to 
give me a reception that finally turned into an ovation. I had 
given a great many readings to raise funds to assist their Soldiers' 
Aid Society, and they were going to present me with a silk flag. 
Pike's Opera-house had been secured — the largest place of 
amusement in the city — and they had made every arrangement 
to have the reception a very dramatic event. The morning of 
the day it was to take place Read and I were, as usual, taking 
our breakfast late. We had just finished, but were still sitting 
at the table chatting. Mr. Garrett, the brother-in-law, who was 
a business man, and guided by business habits, came in while 
we were thus lounging. He wore an air of impatience, and car- 
ried a paper in his hand. He walked directly up to Read, 
unfolded a co])y of Harper' s Weekly, and held it up before the 
man so smgularly gifted as both poet and painter. 



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"The whole front of the paper was covered with a striking 
picture, representing Sheridan seated on his black horse, just 
emerging from a cloud of dust that rolled up from the highway 
as he dashed along, followed by a few troopers. 

'' 'There,' said Mr. Garrett, addressing Read, 'see what 
you have missed You ought to have drawn that picture your- 
self, and gotten the credit of it ; it is just in your line. The first 
thing you know somebody will write a poem on that event, and 
then you will be beaten all around.' 

"Read looked at the picture rather quizzically, a look 
which I interrupted by saying, ' Old Cyclops is right, Read, the 
subject and the circumstance are worth a poem.' 

"'Oh, no,' said Read, 'that theme has been written to 
death. There is "Paul Revere's Ride," " Lochinvar,'' Tom 
Hood's '' Wild Steed of the Plains,'' and half a dozen other 
poems of like character.' 

" Filled with the idea that this was a good chance for the 
gifted man, I said, ' Read, you are losing a great opportunity. 
If I had such a poem to read at my reception to-night, it would 
make a great hit.' 

" ' But, Murdoch, you can't order a poem as you would a 
coat. I can't write anything in a few hours that will do either 
you or me any credit,' he replied rather sharply. 

" I turned to him and said, ' Read, two or three thousand 
of the warmest hearts in Cincinnati, will be in Pike's Opera-house 
to-night at that presentation. It will be a very significant affair. 
Now, you go and give me anything in rhyme, and I will give it 
a deliverance before that splendid audience, and you can then 
revise and polish it before it goes into print.' This view seemed 
to strike him favorably, and he finally said, "Well! Well! We'll 
see what can be done," and he went upstairs to his room. 

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258 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



THE POET AT WORK. 

"A half hour later Hattie, his wife, a brilliant woman, 
who is now residing in Philadelphia, came down and said : 

" ' He wants a pot of strong tea. He told me to get it for 
him, and then he would lock the door and must not be disturbed 
unless the house was afire.' 

"Time wore on, and in our talk on other matters in the 
family circle we had almost forgotten the poet at work up stairs. 
Dinner had been announced, and we were about to sit down 
when Read came in and beckoned me to come. When I 
reached the room he said : *» 

*' ' Murdoch, I think I have about what you want." 

" He read it to me, and with an enthusiasm that surprised 
him, 1 said : 

" ' It is just the thing.' 

" We dined; and at the proper time Read and I. with the 
family, went to Pike's Opera-house. The building was crowded 
in every part. Upon the stage were sitting two hundred maimed 
soldiers, each with an arm or a leg off. General Joe Hooker 
was to present me with the flag the ladies had made, and at the 
time appointed we marched down the stage toward the footlights, 
General Hooker bearing the flag, and I with my arn^ in his. 
Such a storm of applause as greeted the appearance I never 
heard, before or since. Behind and each side of us were the 
rows of crippled soldiers; in front, the vast audience, cheering 
to the echo. Hooker quailed before the warm reception, and, 
growing nervous, said to me in an undertone : 

" ' I can stand ihe storm of battle, but this is too much for 
me ' 

" ' Leave it to me,' said I ; * I am an old hand behind the 
footlights. I will divert the strain from you.' 



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"So, quickly I dropped upon my knee, took a fold of the 
silken flag, and pressed it to my lips. This by-play created a? 
fresh storm of enthusiasm, but steadied Hooker, and he pre- 
sented the flag very gracefully, which I accepted in fittino- 
words. 

Murdoch's reading. 

" I then drew the poem Read had written from my pocket 
and, with proper introduction, began reading it to the audience,. 
The vast assemblage became as still as a church during prayer- 
time, and I read the first three lines without a pause, and ther& 
read the fourth : 

" Under his spurning feet the road 
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, 
And the landscape bowed away behind, 
Like an ocean dying before the wind ; 
And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace-ire, 
Swept on, with his wild eyes full of fire ; 
Rut, lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire. 
He is snufiBng the smoke of the roaring fray, 
With Sheridan only five miles away, 

''As this verse was finished the audience broke into ai 
tumult of applause. Then I read, with all the spirit I could 
command : 

" The first that the general saw were the groups 
Of stragglers, and then the retreating troops ; 
What was done — what to do — a glance told him both 
And, striking his spurs with a terrible oath, 
He dashed down the lines 'mid a storm of hurrahs 
And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because 
The sight of the master compelled it to pause. 
With foam and with dust the black charger was oray •. 
By the flash of his eyes and his nostrils' play. 
He seemed to the whole great army to say, 
' I have brought you Sheridan all the way 
From Winchester town to save the day.' 



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''The sound of my voice uttering the last word had not 
died away when cheer after cheer went up from the great con- 
course that shook the building to its very foundation. Ladies 
waved their handkerchiefs and men their hats, until worn out 
witli the fervor of the hour. They then demanded the author's 
name, and I pointed to Read, who was sitting in a box, and he 
.acknowledged the verses. In such a setting, and upon such an 
'Occasion as I have been able only faintly to describe to you, the 
poem of Sheridan's ride was given to the world. It was writtten 
in about three hours, and not a word was ever changed after I 
read it from the manuscript, except by the addition of the third 
werse, which records the fifteen mile stage of the ride : 

■" But there's a road from Winchester town, 
A good, broad highway, leading down ; 
And there, through the flash of the morning light, 
A steed as black as the steeds of night 
Was seen to pass as with eagle flight ; 
As if he knew the terrible need, 
He stretched away with the utmost speed ; 
Hills rose and fell — but his heart was gay, 
With Sheridan fifteen miles away. 

*' This Mr. Read wrote while on his way, shortly after I 
first read the poem, to attend a birthday reception to William 
CuUen Bryant. 

''Mr. Read read the poem, thus completed, at Mr. 
Bryant's birthday party. The great old man listened to every 
line of it, and then, taking the younger poet by the hand, said, 
with great warmth ; 

** 'That poem will live as long as Lochinvar.'" 



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THE LAST PAGEANT. 



No army in history has had a more brilliant career than tha^ 
commanded by General Sherman, which appeared in the closing, 
pageant of the war. Crossing the line between loyal and rebel 
territory at the extreme northwestern boundary, they marched 
through every insurgent state and capital in the trans-Mississippi,, 
and sweeping round like a terrible cyclone to the northeastern 
limits of the Confederacy, literally crushed slavery, state rights 
and secession before them. The tremendous enthusiasm which, 
greeted their appearance all along the route of march, showed! 
how greatly their countrymen appreciated their worth and serv- 
ices. In imagination they once more saw these stalwart braves 
storming the hostile works at Donelson, Vicksburg, and Chatta- 
nooga, wrestling with the foe upon the crimson fields of Pitts- 
burg Landing, Murfreesboro, Corinth, Perryville, luka, and 
Chickamauga, and once more executing that historical campaign 
which resulted in the overthrow of the Richmond of the west.. 
How vividly must a sight of the war-worn heroes recall the 
incidents of that eventful hundred days; the weary march from 
Dalton, the successful flanking of the stronghold at Dalton, the 
gallant dash through Buzzard Roost Gap and Allatoona Pass^ 
the heroic but unsuccessful charge upon the beetling crags of 
Kenesaw, and the fierce and bloody contests south of the Chat- 
tahoochee ! 

COMES MARCHING HOME. 

How the nation was electrified with joy by the annotince- 
ment upon that memorable Saturday morning that Sherman's 
soldiers, after fighting by day and marching by night during 
nearly four months time, and over a distance of one hundred and 
thirty- eight miles, traversing dense thickets, surmounting rocky 
ledges and fording treacherous streams, had at last reached the 
goal of their hopes and unfurled their banners over the Gate City t 



262 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. , 

Accompanying General Sherman, whose pathway was strewn 
■^vith flowers, rode the fiery Logan and the unassuming Howard, 
the Havelock of the war, who, after a long absence, had returned 
to greet his old brigade of the Second Corps, which he had led 
from Fair Oaks to Antietam. Following them marched the 
Fifteenth Corps, Sherman's original command, which won such 
golden laurels from Chickasaw Bayou to Jonesboro. Then came 
the heroes of the Seventeenth Corps, whose record from Shiloh 
to Bentonville is not less glorious. 

Next in order followed the Twentieth, Hooker's former 
command, composed of the Eleventh and Twelfth corps, which 
vmade the extraordinary journey from the Rapidan to Chatta- 
nooga, when they went to the relief of Rosencranz, which after- 
ward stormed Lookout and carried Resaca, wiping out the stain 
of Chancellorsville, exhibiting equal courage and skill with their 
western comrades all the way to Goldsboro, and furnishing 
commanders for both the army of Tennessee and Georgia, 
Howard of Maine, and Slocum of New York. Last of all came 
the gallant boys of the Fourteenth, who, partaking of the spirit 
of their corps commander — Thomas — planted themselves like 
a wall before the pursuers at Chickamauga, and held the impetu- 
ous foe at bay until McCook and Crittenden could rally their 
broken columns. 

HAIL TO THE CHIEF ! 

As General Sherman passed the multitude of spectators sent 
tup shouts that must have made his heart leap, and the enthusiasm 
increased as he approached the presidential stand. He "rode 
up with the light of battle in his face," holding his hat and his 
bridle-rein in his left hand, and saluting with the good sword in 
his right hand, his eyes fixed upon his commander-in-chief. His 
horse, decked with flowers, seemed to be inspired with the spirit 



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of the occasion, and appeared anxious to "keep step to the 
music of the union." 

After passing the reviewing officer, General Sherman 
wheeled to the left, dismounted, and joined the reviewing party, 
where he was greeted by Governor Dennison, of Ohio. He 
shook hands cordially with President Johnson and General 
Grant, but when Secretary Stanton advanced, with outstretched 
hand, he remarked, " I do not care to shake hands with clerks," 
and turned away. Never was* there a more complete "cut 
direct " than was given by the central figure of that grand 
pageant, whose brain and hand had guided that vast multitude 
of stalwart braves, leading them to victory, glory, and final 
triumph. 

The troops marched by divisions of two companies front, 
and the men appeared in good trim. It was generally remarked 
that they displayed a fine physique, and had apparently profited 
from their foraging among the fat turkeys of Georgia. Their 
faces were finely bronzed, and they marched with a firm, elastic 
step, that seemed capable of carrying them straight to Canada, 
or, by a flank movement, to Mexico, in a short space of time. 

BUMMEKS AND NEGROES. 

Any representation of Sherman's army would have been 
incomplete which omitted the notorious " bummers." At the 
end of General Blair's corps appeared the most ludicrous, and 
at the same time the most interesting, scene ever witnessed in 
connection with any army. The brigade of black servants, 
attended by the guards of the small baggage-train, were preceded 
by two diminutive donkeys, astride of which were two equally 
diminutive darkies, whose self-complacency was only equaled by 
the imperturbable animals under them. • 

Then came the strangest huddle of animation — canine, 
bovine, and human — that ever civilian beheld, but which has 



264 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

been common enough in Georgia — mules, asses, horses, colts, 
cows, sheep, pigs, goats, raccoons mounted on mules, chickens, 
dogs led by negroes blacker than Erebus. Every beast of bur- 
den was loaded to its capacity with tents, baggage, knapsacks, 
hampers, paniers, boxes, valises, kettles, pots, pans, dishes, demi- 
johns, bird cages, cradles, mirrors, fiddles, clothing, picaninnies, 
and an occasional black woman. 

In effect Sherman gave us a sample of his army as it ap- 
peared on the march through the Carolinas. He was, in fact, 
moving to another camp, and the day's display was a perfect 
picture of his progress, only more orderly, and no foraging. 
Some of the negroes appeared to have three days' rations in 
their ample pouches, and ten days more on the animals they led. 
The fraternity was complete ; the goats, dogs, mules, and horses 
were already veterans in the field, and trudged along as if the 
brute world were nothing but a vast march with a daily camp. 
Thus we were shown how Sherman was enabled to live upon the 
enemy. 

TECUMP'S RETORT. 

The evening papers contained a letter from General Sher- 
man which threw some light on the studied insult paid by him to 
Stanton. After alluding to newspaper reports about his conduct, 
he said, "Well, you know wliat importance I attach to such 
matters, and that I have been too long. fighting with real rebels 
with muskets in their hands to be scared by mere non-combatants, 
no matter how high their civil rank or station. It is amusing to 
observe how brave and firm some men become when all danger 
is past. I have noticed on fields of battle brave men never 
insult the captured or mutilate the dead; but cowards and lag- 
gards alwiays do. I can not now recall the act, but Shakespeare 
records how poor Falstaff, the prince of cowards and wits, rising 
from a figured death, stabbed again the dead Percy, and carried 



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265- 



the carcass aloft in triumph to prove his valor. So now, when 
the rebellion in our land is dead, many Falstaffs appear to 
brandish the evidence of their valor, and seek to win applause, 
and to appropriate honors for deeds that never were done. As 
to myself, I ask no popularity^ no reward ; but 1 dare the war 
department to publish my official reports. I assert that my 
official reports have been purposely suppressed, while all the 
power of the press has been malignantly turned against me." 



HOW JOHNNY REB HELPED CATCH A PIG. 



The incident I am about to relate happened down in the 
wilds of West Virginia. I was a member of that glorious old 
Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was noted for its 
good fighting and for its good, religious men. Now, I am not 
going to say whether I was very religious or not. I will leave 
that for some one else to say. Self-praise is worse than none; 
but I will say that, just before going into battle, that little prayer 
my mother taught me, "Now I lay me down to sleep," would 
come up in my mind. My face would grow long, and my 
mouth would open to pray; and then the Lincoln green, or 
tobacco, would pop from my beautiful mouth to mother earth, 
and I would resolve never to chew any more. About that time 
some comrade would say, "What's the matter, Turk?" This 
would break the spell, and then I would forget my praying, shut 
my eyes, and " go it blind." This I write for the young genera- 
tion, not for the old soldiers, for they know how they felt — the 
same as I did, I suppose. 

After the battle of Cross Keys, where General Fremont 
pounded old Stonewall and sent him flying down towards Rich- 
mond to lick General Mc , General Fremont took a notion 

that he would cut across lots and head Stonewall off at Straw- 



266 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

burg. Orders were very strict to ''keep in ranks and not touch 
anything." Grub was very scarce, and 1, being hke the animal 
I was named after, always hungry, got to hankering after meat, 
either chicken or hog. 1 had a chum who was a praying man, 
and he could be trusted; so 1 told him my heart's desire. He 
opened his mouth and gave me very good counsel. vSaid he, 
" If you can only play off sick, and drop down, I can get leave 
of the captain to stay by you till the ambulances come up ; and 
while they are coming up we will hide in the bushes and wait 
until they go past." 

I watched my chance to get sick. Along towards evening 
I was taken violently sick. Down I went. My chum was left 
with me, and my captain took my gun. We lay there until the 
regiment passed us; then we hid behind some bushes until the 
rear guard passed; then we started for "chicken or hog." We 
saw a large house a mile or so off on the road, so we started for 
there. 

We got within twenty yards of the house, when my pard 
said, " Turk, yoii go up to the house and ask for alms, while I 
stay and pray for the good of the mission." I told him to keep 
his gun m his hand and watch while he prayed. I went up to 
the house, and, without ceremony, opened the door. No one 
was in the room. Went into another room, and saw a man slide 
in under the bed. I said to him, " Come out, pard, and give 
me something to eat, or I will search the house." He said there 
was nothing to eat in the house. By this time he saw that I had 
no gun, and he got terribly bold, called me a "darned Yank," 
,and told me to "git" or he would let his bull-dog loose, and he 
^would eat me up, as he had a good mouth for thieves. 

I told him not to do anything of that kind ; that I had no 
gun, and was a sick soldier, and only wanted a good-sized pig 
or a dozen chickens. He said he had no chickens, but he had 
a pig I was welcome to if I could catch it. " But," said he. 



ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS. 267 

^'remember, I will set the dog on you if you^ try to get the 
hog." Says I, ^' We're out of meat, and I must have that pig." 

I bade him good-day, and started to where my chum was 
praying in the fence-corner. When 1 said we could have a pig 
if we could catch it, he said, ''Glory! my prayer has been 
answered, and we will soon have him.'' He stripped for the 
race. I took the gun, and told chum to take a good one, and 
away we went. Johnny Reb saw we were after his hogs, and 
he let the dog loose, and it came running down, he yelling for 
''Bull" to "take him." 1 broke and ran after my chum and 
the hog, hallooing, "Sic! sic! whoop!" Old Bull came tear- 
ing past me and chum, and caught the largest hog by the ear 
and held him till chum cut his throat. 

By this time old Johnny had got within fifty yards of us 
He was swearing terribly at the trick we had played on him and 
Bull. I brought the gun up to a "ready," and told him to 
"halt! " — that he had given me the hog if I could get it, and 
now we had it. I gave the command for him to "about face" 
and "march," and told him if he turned his head to see which 
way we went I would shoot him. We gave old Bull the head 
and all we could not carry away, for his share. 

Arriving safe in camp, chum gave the captain a good mess 
of meat, and reported me better. I took a large piece for my 
supper, and in the morning felt " like the morning star." 



INTERESTING LETTER FROM AN EX-REBEL. 

I was a soldier on the Confederate side, a member of 
Company E^ Fourth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade, Army 
of Northern Virginia. I left the town with the first company 
that went from here to the army, and was one of the last to get 
back ; and I was severely wounded three times. 



268 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

Well, it is all over now ; and here in Texas the old soldiers 
of both sides live side by side, trade and barter with each other, 
marry into each others' families, and "fight their battles o'er 
again " without ever a hard word or thought between them. I 
heard the remark made the other day, and by an ex- Confederate, 
too, that if there had been as many running North and South in 
1861 as there are now, war between the two sections would have 
been impossible. His idea was that since we travel more we are 
better acquainted. I have never met a Union soldier who was 
not willing to admit that we fought well. And fight we did, for 
we fought for what we believed to be a righteous cause. Moth- 
ers sent their sons to battle, and wives their husbands ; but our 
men needed no urging. They went willingly. We fought for a 
cause that we loved dearer than life ; and we held out longer 
than hope lasted— held out till in reality ours was a lost cause 
and a conquered banner. But every true soldier fully accepts 
the result of the war, and desires no more conflict. Yet the 
beautiful lines of Father Ryan find an echo in every Confederate 
soldier's heart : 

'* Furl that banner — furl it slowly; 
Furl it gently, it is holy, 
For it droops above the dead. 
What though conquered, we adore it, 
Love the cold, dead hands that bore it, 
Wept for those who fell before it. 
Prayed for those who trailed and tore it. 
Oh ! how wildly we deplore it, 
Now to furl and fold it so." 

Is tliere a Union soldier who would have us feel otherwise? 
The memory of our deeds of daring is all we have left us of the 
struggle. Our hardships are forgotten. Whatever bitterness 
we may have felt when the result of the struggle was first known 
has passed away, and our deeds upon the field, and the fun 



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around the camp-fire and on the march, remain as our only 
memories. Would any brave man who met us on the field, 
where we stood face to face, pouring our vollies of lead and iron 
into each others' ranks, begrudge us this ? I know they would 
not. 

I was a prisoner of war nine months, and, like the ghost in 
Hamlet, "I could a tale unfold" of hardship and suffering 
while in actual prison ; but I do not care to do it. I would 
rather remember the kindness with which I was treated while in 
the hospital ; for I was severely wounded when captured, and 
until I got well of my wounds I was well treated — and there let 
tTie record stop. I will contribute one anecdote, and then 
stop. 

Upon one occasion we were near the enemy, on picket 
duty, and about dark we got to calling over to each other. One 
of our men and one of the other side got up quite a conversa- 
tion, and inquired each others' names. I will call our man Jim 
Brown, and the Union soldier John Smith. After considerable 
conversation, Jim asked John if he had any coffee. He said, 
** Yes." Jim said, "All right. Put on a big pot, for I will be 
over in the morning after some." "All right," said John, "I 
will have the coffee ready; and you bring along some tobacco." 
Well, just before daylight we moved out, made a dash, and cap- 
tured the whole party; and as soon as we got there Jim halloed 
for John, and said he had brought the tobacco and had come for 
his coffee. John said that was "a h — 1 of a time in the morn- 
ing to be calling for coffee. Why didn't he wait till a man could 
get up and make a fire ? " But they divided coffee and tobacco. 

F. M. Makeig. 
Waco, Texas. 



270 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

A LITTLE GAME OF EUCHRE — AND BLUFF. 

While we were on the campaign from Murfreesboro to- 
Chattano6ga, we rested for a short time on what we called 
University Mountain. Whether that was the real name or not, 
I do not know. It was in July, 1863, and there were plenty of 
blackberries and huckleberries inside of our lines — for a time, 
though, they soon disappeared, as everything generally did 
where there was a camp, especially eatables. One comrade of 
our company, James White, was a pretty good judge of commis- 
sary corn-juice; and when he had a good ration of it aboard he 
would lengthen his name by adding " L. J. Parsons, son of the 
old man." 

Well, Jim and I concluded we would take a walk into the 
country, but had no pass, and thought one was not absolutely 
necessary, as I knew of a good place to get through the lines 
without being seen by the pickets. Taking my old musket, and 
a few rounds of cartridges in my pocket, off we started. After 
getting outside the picket-hne all right, we headed for a corn- 
juice factory, about six miles distant. After tramping about half 
the distance, we discovered, on a little raise in the road, a man 
sitting on a horse } and from the looks of him we concluded we 
had gone far enough in that direction. As soon as he discovered 
us he fell back over the hill, out of sight. We took advantage 
of his movement, and retreated about a mile and a half. 

The road being clear behind us, as far as we could see, we 
thought it was too early to return to camp ; so we made a flank 
movement to the right, and into the brush, where we skirmished 
around about an hour. Then we heard an old rooster crow, a 
short distance ahead of us. Jim looked at me, and I looked at 
Jim. Then we held a council, and decided to attack the rooster 
at once, and accordingly ordered an advance, which was very 
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to an opening, with a road running alongside of it. On the 
other side of the road was fence, and just beyond the fence a 
house, surrounded by a few shade trees. 

We kept up our advance, and just as we were cHmbing over 
the fence we discovered four men, with the butternut clothes on, 
playing euchre under one of the trees between us and the house ; 
but they had no arms in sight, nor did they appear to notice us. 
Jim says, " What will we do ? " I said we must bluff them if 
we could, as we had gone too far to retreat with safety. We 
walked up to them, apparently watching the game, but thinking 
of a different game from euchre. I said to J mi, "Aint.it time 
the other boys were here?" He said he thought so. Just then 
a iaiy came to the door. 1 asked if she could get dinner for six 
of us fellows. She said she reckoned she could. I told her we 
would pay her what was right. In a very short time she said 
dinner was ready, so Jim and 1 marched into the house, but took 
our seats where we could keep an eye on the lads under the 
shade tree, and kept the old musket handy. 

The dinner was good, but we soon got all of it that we 
wanted, and, paying the woman fifty cents, we assured her that 
the other four would be there soon, and we went back to watch 
tlie game a few minutes, asking each other, every few minutes, 
" why the boys didn't come ! " We kept edging around until we 
got close to the fence, which we were not slow to get over, and 
into the brush ; and I think we measured off about a mile before 
we halted, and that mile was in the opposite direction from 
camp, because if they followed us they would most likely hunt for 
us in the opposite direction from which we were. Who those 
fellows were we never knew. If they were not rebel soldiers 
they acted very strangely; and if they were, it was strange they 
did not take us in. But when we saw them there we gave up 
the idea of attacking that fellow that was crowing. 

Paliryra, Nebraskji. G. W. PETERSON. 



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"TO H— L MIT DE GRAND ROUNDS." 

I enlisted in Company A, Fifth Michigan Cavalry, July 
18, 1862. We were sent to Camp Banks, Detroit, and there 
drilled until October. In our regiment, the members of Com- 
pany F were all Dutch, and among them were some who were 
very slow and backward in learning the drill; consequently the 
drill-master used to take them out by themselves and drill extra. 
Still, there were some who seemed almost dumb, and could not 
remember to salute the different officers according to their rank. 
One night there was one of them on guard duty around camp. 
After he had stood it as it seemed to him a long time, he begin 
to think the relief-guard would soon be along and he would be 
relieved. He soo'n heard the clatter of sabers, and then he was 
sure he would soon be in his bunk for four hours' rest. Finally 
they came to the proper distance, and he said, "Halt! Who 
comes there?" The reply was, "Grand Rounds.'' Says he, 
^'Advance, Grand Rounds, and give the countersign." 

The officer of the day saw at once that it was one of those 
Dutchmen who could not remember the drill; so he motioned to 
the men to stay there while he advanced. As he came up, the 
vidette was very awkward in giving any kind of a salute, with 
no pretense of the right one; so he said, " Haven't you been 
here lately, to learn the drill, so as to know how to salute the 
officer of the day properly?" "Yes, I vas here." "Well," 
said the officer, " you don't seem to understand it. Now I pro- 
pose that we change places for a short time ; you be officer of 
the day, and I'll stand in your place. You approach, and take 
notice of how I present arms ; then try and remember it accor- 
dingly.'' Poor Dutchy gave up his gun; the officer took it, ran 
to the guard-house, returned with an extra guard, and placed 
him on the vacant post. Poor Dutchy was pricked for extra 
duty. 



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Well, in a few days it came his turn to go on guard-duty 
again. He thought he would not be caught for anything, for he 
had taken pains to salute the officer of the day in the meantime. 
So in the night he stood a long time on post. He began to 
think his trick must be about up. Finally he says to himself, 
*' It can't be more than five minutes before it is time for the 
relief. I guess the Grand Rounds ain't going to come." Soon 
afterward he heard the old, familiar jingle of s ibers. Says he, 
''There is the relief. Halt! Who comes there?"' Promptly 
came the answer, " The Grand Rounds." "To h — 1 mit de 
Grand Rounds! I taut it vas de relief guards." 

All old soldiers will know what was done with poor Dutchy 
then ; but let me add that when we got to the front Company F 
was as good a fighting company as there was in the Fifth Michi- 
gan Cavalry. For a long time afterwards, if anythmg went 
different in camp with the boys from what they expected, it 
would be, "To h — 1 mit de Grand Rounds! I taut it vas de 
relief-guards." A. Smith. 



A MEMORY OF WILMINGTON. 



I will .try and give you a history of something that I saw at 
Wilmington, North Carolina. As we approached the city the 
Johnnies were getting ready to move — I suppose to make room 
for us Yankees. They finally got in such a big hurry that they 
left a few thousand pounds of tobacco. This we took right in 
out of the wet, and we moved on up to the barracks. Before 
we had time to look around there was a detail made to hunt 
around and see how many of our men there were left. We 
found twelve men lying out in front of the barracks, who had 
been starved to death. They were lying in the hot sun, some 
with their mouths wide open, and others with eyes open, and 
the gray-backs crawling down their throats. 

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Others were found inside of the quarters, perfectly helpless. 
But, thank the Lord ! there was a lady there who had a heart in 
her, for she told me she had been there all night, caring for 
those men. She went and begged something for them to eat, 
and some coffee. She was a noble lady. May the Lord bless 
her ! 

While we were on duty at this place there were some seven 
thousand of our men there who had been prisoners for some 
months. They were a horrible sight to behold — some without 
hats or caps, boots or shoes, some without shirts, some with 
pants having one leg torn off; no shirts on the half of them; 
dirty and ragged as could be. After starving those men in that 
manner, who can have the cheek to tell us '' The war is over — 
we should forget and forgive!" I say, No; never can I forget 
or forgive anyone, it matters not who, who did it. We should 
not only remember them ourselves, but tench our children and 
children's children to watch them. They are not to be trusted 
in any way, shape, or form. 

For those twelve men 1 spoke of, whom we found in the 
hot sun, we dug a grave, and put them in side by side, as best 
we could, spread their old blankets over them, and covered them 
over, and left them, without even a shingle or anything to show. 
But this was the best we could do for them. 

J. C. P. 
Salem, Ohio. 



PEACH-BRANDY VALOR. 

During a recent conversation, V. K. Stevenson, jr., one of 
our most enterprising real estate men, said : 

*' When the war broke out I was a small boy, and was sent 
to the Confederate West Point at Marietta, Georgia, where we 
had about six hundred cadets. Mv father subscribed to one 



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hundred thousand dollars of the Confederate loan at par. He 
lost all his negroes, and I am glad of it. Although I was on 
the opposite side, I am perfectly satisfied with the result; and 
so is everybody else of good sense that I have talked to. Our 
ladies in the South were so gallant for the war that they really 
made me believe I could go out with a wheat straw and whip 
every invader across the lines. My grandfather, after the Fed- 
erals got into Chattanooga, became so patriotic that he wrote my 
father a letter that I ought to be taken out of the the military 
school and sent to the batdeheld. My father merely inclosed 
the letter to me without any remark, and thereupon I went to 
the commandant of the academy and asked my discharge, as I 
was going to enlist in the ranks to be sent to the front. I 
enlisted in an Irish regiment entirely composed of railroad 
laborers, and we started for the battlefield of Chickamauga in 
box- cars, every soldier being possessed of a canteen filled with 
New Orleans rum. You can imagine what a diabolical scene 
was in that car, fighting all the way along ; but I was regarded 
as quite a young hero. We had a terrible battle, and in the 
excitement had no time to think. It got out, however, who my 
father was, and I was put on the staff of a man named Benton 
Smith, who was only twenty-three years old, and a general." 

"Benton Smith," resumed Mr. Stevenson, "being called 
the boy general, concluded that he must have a staff entirely of 
boys. He was a prodigy of audacity and courage, but his high 
nervous nature at last wore him out, and not long ago he was a 
lunatic in a padded cell in Tennessee. He always kept his 
aides right up to the front, and I saw that unless something hap- 
pened I should be shot. Just before the big battle at Atlanta, 
where McPherson was killed, Smith's brigade was re-inforced by 
a Georgia regiment nearly a thousand strong. I went to a hos- 
pital the morning of that battle, where I saw a pile of legs and 
arms amputated, and it made me sick at the stomach, being 



276 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

quite another lesson of the war, and finding one of our aides 
with several canteens of peach brandy, I asked him to let me 
have some to settle my stomach, and drank the whole of it. 
Smith then ordered me to lead the Georgia regiment into the 
battle. I was blind drunk, and charged my horse right over the 
Federal ramparts. He had both eyes shot out and both knees 
broken, and ^s I went up the rampart I could hear the Yankees 
cry all down the line, ' Don't shoot that boy ! ' My life was 
really saved by my youth. It was that charge, as I have under- 
stood," said Mr. Stevenson, "which led to McPherson's death. 
I was twice promoted for gallantry on the battlefield, and upon 
my soul it was nothing but that peach-brandy." — Gath, in New 
York Tribune. 



SOME OF THE AMENITIES OF CAMP LIFE. 

There was a man in Company , of a certain Ohio regi- 
ment, who had a tremendous big nose. He was laughed at 
continually. On Sunday morning he would get ready to take a 
shave. He had a small looking-glass, which he would hang up 
against a tree, and then, after lathering his face, he would seize 
his razor in his right hand and his nose in his left. About this 
time fifty or more boys, who were watching, would burst out 
laughing, and, oh, how mad "Nosey" would get ! Afterwards 
I was told by a soldier that he and this man were captured 
together. He said they were taken to the rear, and the Johnnies 
put our big-nosed comrade upon a stump and gathered around 
him. They would look and laugli, and laugh and look. Fi- 
nally they said it was no use for the Yanks to deny having horns, 
for they had now secured a specimen — one who had a horn in 
the middle of his face. 

Just before the battle at Nashville, Tennessee, in December, 
1864, two comrades fell out — Charlie and Henry . 



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Both were big, stout, burly fellows. Charlie was said to be the 
stoutest man in the regiment, but he would rather eat than fight. 
It was supper-time, and Charlie was sitting down eating his 
supper, when Henry came round and began quarreling with 
him. Charlie quarreled back, but kept on eating. Quite a 
crowd soon collected, expecting every minute to see a champion 
fight. Henry abused Charlie terribly. Charlie would sit there 
and say, "Just go on, Henry, till I get done eating, and I'll 
fight you!" But the more Henry cursed him the hungrier 
Charlie seemed to get. The boys persuaded Henry to go off, as 
they wanted Charlie to get done in time to be mustered out with 
his regiment! It was, no doubt, a fine thing for Henry that 
Charlie's appetite was so good, for the writer had seen Charlie 
fight before then, when his appetite wasn't half so good, and he 
was a bad one. 

There was a comrade in a certain regiment who was a one- 
horse preacher before the war. After getting into camp, some 
of his boys said he captured their coffee-pot one night The 
chaplain of the regiment got up a pretty big revival in the regi- 
ment, and this brother made himself very conspicuous. The 
boys liked their chaplain, and behaved very well till this man 
would begin to talk or pray; then they would yell out all over 
camp, " Dig him a coffee-pit ! " and the poor fellow would have 
to quit. 



CAPTURED BY A SLAVE. 

During the early part of the summer of 18G3 we were doing 
duty at Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and the rebels were scouting 
and firing on the passing steamers up the Mississippi River. 
One day a rebel lieutenant got separated from his command, and 
he pressed a slave as a guide through a large wooded territory in 
our front. Everything went along to his satisfaction until they 



278 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

were near our front, when the negro suddenly turned on the 

rebel, took his arms from him, dismounted him, and pointed for 

our post, threatening him with all- kinds of death if he looked 

back. He marched him in, and delivered the prisoner up to 

our commanding officer. 

The lieutenant was terribly frightened, but felt much better 

when he was safe in our hands ; and the slave was elated to 

think he was able to do something for the suppression of the 

rebellion and for his own liberty. 1 asked the negro if he would 

have killed the reb. "Lor! Massa, no. I would not have 

hurt a hair on his wicked head, only I wanted to let him know I 

was boss just then." These people knew what the war was 

about, and they had an idea what its ending would be if the 

rebellion had succeeded ; and I wish that they were as well 

treated, North and South, by all the people, as they deserve. 

H. S. Archer. 
Randolph, Massachusetts. 



THE WAGON-LOAD OF BREAD. 

A party of soldiers, during the late civil war, found them- 
selves, one night, on a battlefield in charge of a great many 
wounded soldiers, who, by reason of the sudden retreat of the 
army, were left wholly without shelter or supplies. Having 
done their best for the poor fellows —bringing them water from 
a distant brook, and searching the haversacks of the dead for 
rations — they began to say to themselves and to one another, 
*' These weak and wounded men must have food or they will 
die. The army is out of reach, and there is no village for many 
miles ; what are we to do? " 

'' Pray to God to send us bread," said one. 

That night, in the midst of the dead and dying, they held a 
little prayer-meeting, telling the Lord all about the case, and 



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begging him to send them bread immediately; though from 
whence it could come they had not the most remote idea. All 
night long they plied their work for mercy. With the first ray 
of dawn the sound of an approaching wagon caught their ears; 
and presently, through the mists of the morning, appeared a 
great Dutch farm wagon, piled to the very top with loaves of 
bread. 

On asking the driver where he came from, and who sent 
him, he replied: "When I went to bed last night I knew that 
the army was gone, and I could not sleep for thinking of the 
poor fellows who always have to stay behind. Something 
seemed to say to me : * What will those poor fellows do for 
something to eat ? ' It came to me so strong that I waked up 
my old wife, and told her what was the matter. We had only a 
little bread in the house ; and while my wife was making some 
more I took my team and went round to all my neighbors, 
making them get up and give me all the bread in their houses, 
telling them it was for the wounded soldiers on the battlefield. 
When I got home my wagon was full. My wife piled her bak- 
ing on the top, and 1 started off to bring the bread to the boys, 
feeling just as if the Lord himself were sending me." — Kind 
Words. 



THAT BUTTER. 



I belonged to what the Third Iowa boys would call the 
" Butter Regiment." They will remember what a fight we had 
in the peach orchard at Shiloh. The Third Iowa was on our 
right, and the Forty-first Illinois on our left. Colonel Pugh 
commanded our brigade. I should like to shake hands with the 
boys of the old Third. 

I guess they will all recollect when we were on the march 
from Memphis to Bolivar, Tennessee, some of the boys of the 



2S0 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

Third captured a keg of butter; and our captain, being officer 
of the day, thought it his duty to recapture the butter, taking 
into consideration that it was something to eat, and the men 
were not used to such fare. But I guess the boys got the best 
of the joke at last; for, upon examining the butter, they found 
wool in it. I suppose the wool was put into the butter to hold 
it together, as it was in a warm country. I never found out 
exactly what kind of wool it was, but we can guess. 



THE COLONEL HELPED. 

Our regiment was introduced to the music at Fort Donelson 
on the morning of February 13, 1862. Late that afternoon the 
rain commenced falling, and we were not allowed to kindle any 
fire. Our colonel took a cold lunch, and said he would "rough 
it" with the boys. We all lay down together, and about four 
inches of snow fell on us that night. The next night the colonel 
said we would have a fire if the Johnnies did shell us, and, laying 
off his coat, he helped us to make a log-heap, and you can bet 
we were glad to have a fire to lie beside that night. 

But, boys, that was not going to last long. You know how 
that was ; and you know how it was going up that hill, over that 
down timber. Our colonel, with hat in one hand and sword in 
the other, led the way, shouting, "Come on, boys! Gad! 
we've got them." And so we had them; but all who went in 
did not come out as they went in. 

W. S. Hawley. 



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THE DRUMMER BOY OF MISSION RIDGE. 



THE SERGEANT'S STORV 



P.Y KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD. 



[To Jolin S. Kountz, Commander of the Department of Ohio, Grand 
Army of the Republic, this story of his experience at Mission Ridge, 
while serving as drummer boy of the Thirty-seventh QJiio Volunteer 
Infantry — the story being that of the sergeant who bore him from the 
field — is dedicated, as a slight testimonial to his courage on the field of 
battle, and his fidelity to the veteran's bond of union, "Fraternity, 
Charity, and Loyalty."] 

Did ever you hear of the Drummer Boy of Mission Ridge, who lay 
With his face to the foe, 'neath the enemy's guns, in the charge of that 

terrible day ? 
They were firing above him and firing below, and the tempest of shot 

and shell 
Was raging like death, as he moaned in his pain, by the breastworks 

where he fell. 

We had burnished our muskets and filled our canteens, as we waited for 

orders that morn — 
Who knows when the soldier is dying of thirst, where the wounded are 

wailing forlorn .'* — 
When forth from the squad that was ordered back from the burst of that 

furious fire. 
Our Drummer Boy came, and his face was aflame with the light of a 

noble desire. 

" Go back with your corps," our colonel had said; but he waited the 

moment when 
He might follow the ranks and shoulder a gun with the best of us bearded 

men. 
And so, when the signals from old Fort Wood set an army of veterans 

wild, 
He flung down his drum, which spun down the hill like the ball of a 

wayward child. 



282 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

And so he fell in with the foremost ranks of brave old Company G, 

As we charged by the flank, with our colors ahead, and our columns 
closed up like a V, 

In the long, swinging lines of that splendid advance, when the flags of 
our corps floated out, 

Like the ribbons that dance in the .jubilant lines of the march of a gala- 
day rout. 

He charged with the ranks, though he carried no gun, for the colonel had 
, said him nay, 

And he breasted the blast of the bubtling guns, and the shock of the sick- 
ening fray ; 

And when by his side they were falling like hail, he sprang to a comrade 
slain. 

And shouldered his musket and bore it as true as the hand that was dead 
to pain. 

'Twas dearly we loved him, our Drummer Boy, with a fire in his bright, 

black eye, 
That flashed forth a spirit too great for his form, he only was just so 

high — 
As tall, perhaps, as your little lad, who scarcely reaches your shoulder — 
Though his heart was the heart of a veteran then, a trifle, it may be, the 

bolder. 

He pressed to the front, our lad so leal, and the works were almost won, 
A moment more and our flags had swung, o'er the muzzle of murderous 

gun; 
But a raking fire swept the van and he fell 'mid the wounded and the 

slain. 
With his wee, wan face turned up to Him who leeleth Ilis children's 

pain. 

Again and again our lines fell back, and again with shivering shocks 

They flung themselves on the rebels' works, as the fleet on the jagged 
rocks ; 

To be crushed and broken and scattered amain, as the wrecks of the surg- 
ing storm, 

Where none may riie and none may reck of aught that has human form. 



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So under the Ridge we were flying for the order to charge again, 
And we counted our comrades missing, and we counted our comrades slain; 
And one said, "Johnnie, our Drummer Boy, is grievously shot and lies 
Just under the enemy's breastworks; if left on the field he dies." 

Then all the blood that was in me surged up to my aching brow ; 

And my heart leaped up like a ball in my throat, I can feel it even now; 

And I swore I would bring that boy from the field, if God would spare 

my breath, 
If all the guns on Mission Ridge should thunder the threat of death. 

I crept and crept up the ghastly Ridge, by the wounded and the dead, 
With the moans of my comrades right and left, behind me and yet ahead, 
Till I came to the form of our Drummer Boy. in his blouse of dusty blue, 
With his face to the foe, 'neath the enemy's guns, where the blast of the 
battle blew. 

And his gaze as he met my own, God wot, would have melted a heart of 

stone. 
As he tried like a wounded bird to rise, and placed his hand in my own ; 
So wan and faint, with his ruby-red blood, drank deep by the pitiless 

sward. 
While his breast with its fleeting, fluttering breath, throbbed painfully 

slow and hard. 

And he said in a voice half-smothered, though its whispering thrills me yet, 
" I think in a moment more that I would have stood on that parapet. 
For my feet have trodden life's rugged ways, and I have been used to 

climb 
Where some of the boys have slipped, I know, but I never missed a time. 

But now I nevermore will climb, and sergeant, when you see 
The men go up those breastworks there, just stoop and waken me; 
For though I can not make the charge, and join the cheers that rise, 
I may forget my pain to see the old flag kiss the skies." 

Well, it was hard to treat him so, his poor limb shattered sore. 

But I raised him to my shoulder, and to the surgeon bore, 

And the boys who saw us coming each gave a shout of joy, 

Though some in curses clothed their prayers for him, our Drummer Boy. 



284 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

When sped the news that " Fighting Joe " had saved the Union right, 
With his legions fresh from Lookout ; and that Thomas massed his might 
And forced the rebel center; and our cheering ran like wild ; 
And Sherman's heart was happy as the heart of a little child ; 

When Grant from his lofty outlook saw our flags by the hundred fly, 
Along the shores of Mission Ridge, where'er he cast his eye ; 
And our Drummer Boy heard the news, and knew the mighty battle done. 
The valiant contest ended, and the glorious victory won ; 

Then he smiled in all his agony, beneath the surgeon's steel, 
And joyed that his was the blood to flow, his country''s woes to heal; 
And his bright, black eyes so yearning, grew strangely glad and Avide; 
I think that in that hour of joy he would have gladly died. 

Ah, ne'er again our ranks were cheered by our little Drummer's drum, 
When rub, rub, rub-a-dub, dub, we knew that our hour had come ; 
Beat brisk at morn, beat sharp at eve, rolled long when it called to arms. 
With rub, rub, rub-a-dub, dub, 'mid the clamor of rude alarms! 

Ah, ne'er again our black-eyed boy looked up in the veteran's face. 
To waken thoughts of his children safe in mother love's embrace !. 
Oh, ne'er again with tripping feet he ran with the other boys — 
His budding hopes were cast away as they were idle toys. 

But ever in our hearts he dwells, with a grace that never is old, 

For him the heart to duty wed can nevermore grow cold ! 

His heart, the hero's heart, we name the loyal, true, and brave. 

The heart of the soldier hoar and gray, of the lad in his southern grave! 

And when they tell of their heroes, and the laurels they have won. 
Of the scars they are doomed to carry, of the deeds that they have done; 
Of the horror to be biding among the ghastly dead. 
The gory sod beneath them, the bursting shell o'erhead ; 

My heart goes back to Mission Ridge and the Drummer Boy who lay 
With his face to the foe, 'neatli the enemy's guns, in the charge of that 

terrible day ; 
And I say that the land that bears such sons is crowned and dowered, 

with all 
That the Lord giveth nations to stay them lest they fall. 



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BATTLE OF NASHVILLE. 

Now Thomas came with his well-drilled command^ 

To Nashville, on the river Cumberland, 

A place of beauty in a high degree, 

In state original of Tennessee, 

Where, in endeavors for the public good 

He militates against the aims of Hood, 

Who with his army there does cogitate 

That city fair to make Confederate. 

His plan of battle is of simple kind, 

The field uneven, yea, to hills inclined — 

A feint upon the left, does quickly make 

Which to the center causes him to take — 

The further operations to enhance 

The Sixteenth Corps was ordered to advance. 

At early dawn Hood roused in much affright 

At the loud firing on his distant right ; 

And scarcely had he time to ascertain 

What it did mean, before an armed train 

Came down upon him like a loosened flood. 

From the united corps of Smith and Wood. 

A battle this could not be truly called. 

So overwhelming was the foe appall'd, 

That their lines crumbled in atoms, and 

The left entire was gone of Hood's command. 

Thus with a single blow his left was gone, 

And in confusion drove the center on — 

This now let loose the nimble cavalry 

Which now swept round and passed our right in glee. 

Hung like avenging cloud upon the flank 

And rear of rebels, as they placed their rank 

And file back on the center, sullenly, 

Which Hood imperiled in a high degree. 

Aroused now by the dangers imminent 

Hood ordered from the right that troops be sent, 



286 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

The tide reversed, of battle to sustain ; 
When all around, from every hill and plain,^ 
Could be discovered lines of infantry, 
Commingled with squads of artillery 
Which made the most of every joint and limb,. 
In gallant forward strides to rescue him. 

The left is gone, the center still is held, 

From which Hood is not easily expelled, 

As the position is one very strong — 

On lofty hills, and covered all along 

With rifle-pits, well fringed with abatis. 

Beyond which ordnance move — charged not to miss 

As they the grape and canister did throw, 

On every parcel of the land below. 

Smith in command was never known to shirk, 

But paused before this formidable work, 

A reconnoissance of it to make. 

That he successfully the same might take. 

Now Wood and Schofield with their forces came 

And kept all day a brisk artillery flame 

Without effect ; while infantry essayed 

In vain to find a spot they could invade. 

But then it was not difficult 

For thus, one day, to sum up the result — 

Two thousand prisoners captured martially 

With sixteen pieces of artillery. 

Now Thomas saw the sun sink in the west. 
While nature tired, inclined to sink to rest ; 
Ere this, the news by telegraph does tell, 
"So far, I think, we have succeeded well ; 
Lest Hood decamps to-night to-morrow stead, 
Will double up his right — by tactics led. 
While gallant Wood endow'd with courage bold 
His centtr most triumphantly will hold; 
And Smith and Schofield strike his left again. 
While cavalry the rear work will maintain. "^ 



ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS. 287" 

Hood takes a new position in the night, 

The better to maintain to-morrow's fight ; 

And of the former is two miles in rear, 

While shortened to three miles his lines appear — 

So very powerful appear the whole 

That at first sight they seem impregnable. 

But Thomas acting on his former plan, 

Commanded Steadman now lo lead the van ; 

As yesterday, upon the rebel right. 

However, now it being their design 

To hold their fire, and feel the rebel line ; 

Till Smith and Schofield should reach the scene 

Of yesterday, now passed to the serene. 

The stillness of the hour now occupies 

The close attention of all ears and eyes, 

Like that which is precursor to the sage 

Of the fierce lightning's rage, 

Or like the thunderbolt's malignant fall, 

When trembles earth, and skies with gloom appall. 

The Union bugles, well played on, and large, 

Nov\' sound the tidings to command "the charge." 

With leveled bayonets and ringing cheers 

That sounded audibly in rebel ears, 

They swept undauntedly, for all were brave. 

Upon the rebels in one awful wave, 

Wood in the center; as the sound he caught, 

His regiments to a forward movement brought 

And Steadman stationed on the left extreme. 

Upon them charged ; it was no idle dream. 

Now for three miles the rebel lines became 

One lively scene ; ah ! one vast sheet of flame. 

The batteries thundred, shells screamed through the air,. 

The earth did tremble as a frightened hare; 

Beneath our feet the ground* appeared to quake. 

Sulphurous clouds of smoke appearance make ; 

And for one hour without an intermit 

It was an emblem of the burning pit. 

The rebels seemed as if by whirlwinds raised,. 



288 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

And carried back, defeated, and amazed ; 
While dropping everything that would impede 
The flight of one that ran for life indeed, 
They sped in wild confusion o'er the land, 
Who then submitted not to our command. 
These words are still resounding in my ear, 
Which issued from a captured brigadier ; 
Though at that moment I had not the time 
To emphasize and place them into rhyme : 
** Why, sir, it is, and ever shall be said, 
The bravest act I ever vitnessed ; 
I saw you coming, men, and held my fire — 
In numbers to a full brigade entire — 
Until I demonstrably could espy 
The white in each and every soldier's eye ; 
Determined thus a bullet well to place 
In each and every soldier's face; 
And I supposed, when the smoke arose. 
Your heels would toward us be, and not your toes. 
But not thus. Each deserves a diadem ; 
My galling fire not even staggered them. 
They came along cool, and in martial skill. 
And walked up to my works upon the hill ; 
And ere I knew that you advance had made, 
You had entire surrounded my brigade." 
More than two thousand rebel prisoners we — 
One major general, brigadiers just three — 
Did capture in that battle with their arms, 
And showed the world secession had no charms. 

L. L. Hanan. 



ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS. 289 



THE SOLDIER'S DEATH. 



IN MEMORY OF JAMES D. SEWARD. 



Who saw him fall, the noble boy ? 
Who whispered words of hope and joy ? 
Could no one pause in that sad strife, 
And try to win him back to life? 

Who watched beside his dying bed? 
I only hear that he is dead. 
I was not there to close his eyes, 
Or catch his last expiring sighs. 

No loved one near to soothe his pain, 
Or smootii his matted locks again ; 
No hand to wipe the fallen tear, 
Or soothe the heart of one so dear. 

Were pitying angels hovering nigh 
To waich my poor, lone brother die ? 
With pearly gates all swung ajar, 
To watch his coming from afar ? 

His voice comes back to soothe my grief, 
And give my bleeding heart relief; 
His parting look, his farewell sigh — 
I was not there to see him die. 

I may not see his lonely grave ; 
He 's sleeping with his country's brave. 
But though I may not mark the spot. 
My heart will still forget him not, 

I love to think of one so dear; , 

His name I'll mention with a tear, 

And weep the cruel fate that gave 

My lirother to a soldier's grave. C. R. 

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290 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 



THE NINETY-FOURTH ARMY BEAN. 



The following song was sung by the orphan children, at the reunion 
of the Ninety-fourth Regiment O. V. I., Xenia, Ohio: 

[Air — "Sweet Pye-and-Bye."] 

There's a spot that the soldiers all love, 
The mess-tent's the place that we mean, 

And the dish that we like to see there. 
Is the old-fashioned white army bean. 

CHORUS. 

'Tis the bean, that we mean, 

And we'll eat as we ne'er ate before. 

The army bean, nice and clean. 
We'll stick to our beans evermore. 

Now the bean in its primitive state, 

Is a plant we have often met, « 

And when cooked in the old army style, 

It has charms we can never forget. 

CHORUS. 

The German is fond of saui-kraut, 
The potato is loved by the Mick, 
. But we soldiers have long since found out, 
That thro' life to our beans we should stick. 

[Refrain — Air — "Tei.i. Aunt Rhodv."] 

Beans for l^reakfast, 
Beans for dinner. 
Beans for supper, 
Beans, beans, beans. 



Closijip; Scenes of the War. 



In closing this history I think it will be interesting to my 
readers to show how General Sherman's campaign ended. The 
news of the battles about Petersburg reached Sherman at Golds- 
boro on the 6th of April. Up to that time it was his move 
rapidly northward, feigning (m Raleigli and striking straight for 
Burksville, and thus interposing his army between Johnston 
and Lee. The successes at Petersburg, however, changed the 
necessity for a junction of Sherman's army with Grant's, and the 
Confederate armies of Lee and Johnston became the strategic 
points. Grant was fully able to take care of the former, and it 
was Sherman's task to destroy or capture the latter. Johnston 
had his army well in hand about Smithfield. His infantry and 
artillery were estimated at thirty five thousand, anl his cava'ry at 
from six to ten thousand. General Kilpatrick was held in reserve 
at Mount Olive, with orders to recruit his horses, and be ready 
to make a sudden and rapid march on the 10th of April. 

At daybreak of the 10th all the heads of columns were in 
motion against the enemy. General Slocum took the two direct 
roads for Smithfield. General Howard was to make a circuit by 
the right, feigning up the Weldon road, to disconcert the ene- 
my s cavalry ; and Generals Terry and Kilpatrick moving on the 
west side of the Neuse River, were to aim at reaching the rear of 
the enemy between Smithfield and Raleigh. General Schofield 
followed General Slocum in support. Within six miles of Golds- 
boro more or less cavalry were met behind the usual rail barri. 
cades, but they were swept away by the advance, and by ten 



292 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

A. M. of the 11th, Davis' Fourteenth Corps entered Smithfield, 
closely followed by the Twentietli Corps. Johnston had lightened 
up his trains by the railroad, and retreated, burning the bridge 
over die Neuse River, at Smithfield. Pontoons were brought up, 
and the crossing accomplished without resistance. It was here 
that the news of the surrender of Lee's army, at Appomattox 
Court House, Virginia, reached General Sherman, .aid was an- 
nounced by him to the armies in orders, creating the wildest joy 
The announcement was made at the head of columns, and as the 
joyful news was conveyed from division to division, and from 
regiment to regiment, each in turn took up the glad shout, mak- 
ing the pine forests ring with the "glad tidings of great joy." 
For a time all discipline was cast aside. The men seized their 
ofificers and carried them around on their shoulders, and then 
threw their hats or caps high in the air. Strong men wept and 
laughed by turns, and embraced each other in the exuberance of 
their joy. 

While negotiations for the surrender of Johnston's army 
were pending at Raleigh, Jefferson Davis was making his way 
toward the Mississippi River, with the intention of passing into 
Texas, there to continue the strife. Ffforts were made for his 
capture by the army, and, to stimulate to greater exertion, large 
rewards were offered for his apprehension. General Wilson, 
being apprised' of Davis' probable route, put his whole available 
cavalry force in pursuit, sending squads in all directions. The 
Mississippi River was patrolled by gunboats, to prevent his 
crossing, and the coast of Georgia and Florida was watched day 
and night. General Wilson's report of the capture is given in 
the following dispatch to the Secretary of War ; 

Macon, Georgia, 9:30 a. m., May 13th. 
To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: 

Lieutenant Colonel Harden, commanding First Wisconsin, has just 
arrived from Lwinsville. He struck Davis' trail at Dublin, Lawrence 



CLOSING SCENES OF THE WAR. 293 

County, on the evening of the 7th, and followed him closely, night and 
day, through the pine wilderness of Alligator Creek and Green Swamp, 
via Cumberland, to Irvvinsville. At Cumberland, Colonel Harden met 
Colonel Pritchard, with one hundred and fifty picked men and horses of 
the Fourth Michigan. Harden followed the trail directly south, while 
Pritchard, having fresher hoises, puslied dowai the Ocmulgee toward 
Hopewell, and thence by House Creek to Irwinsville, arriving there at 
midnight of the 9th. Jeff Davis had not arrived. From citizens Pritch- 
ard learned that his party were encamped two miles out of town. He 
made his dispositions, and surrounded the camp l^efore day. Harden 
had encamped two miles (as he afterward learned) from Davis, the trail 
being too indistinct to follow. He pushed on at 3 A. M., and had gone 
but little more than a mile when his advance was fired upon by men of 
the Fourth Michigan. A fight ensued, both parties exhibiting the great- 
est determination. Fifteen minutes elapsed before the mistake was dis- 
covered. The firing in this skirmish was the first warning Davis received. 
The captors report that he hastily put on one of his wife's dresses and 
started for the woods, closely followed by our men, who at first thought 
him to be a woman, but, discovering his boots while running, suspected 
his sex at once. The race was a short one, and the rebel president was 
soon brought to bay. He brandished a bowie-knife of elegant pattern, 
and showed signs of battle, but yielded promptly to the persuasions of 
the captain's revolver, without compelling the men to fire. He expressed 
great indignation at the energy with which he was pursued, saying that 
he thought our Government was more magnanimous than to hunt down 
women and children. Mrs. Davis remarked to Colonel Harden after the 
excitement was over that " the men had better not provoke the president 
as he might hurt some of 'em." 

J. H. WILSON, Brevet Major General. 

Davis was immediately taken to Fortress Monroe, and 
confined in one of tlie casements of the fortress prepared for 
him, and a strong guard placed over him to prevent escape or 
rescue. He was afterward bailed out by Horace Greeley, which 
was the cause of his political death, and doubtless his political 
death was the cause of his natural death. 

" O Horace Greeley, you were not the man for me; 
You went too far to liail old Jeff, and helped to set him free." 



294 GREENE COUNTY IN THE WAR. 

Our task, kind reader, is finished. Through more than 
four years of war and carnage, such as few nations have ever 
feit, we have tried to give a partial history of some of the 
regiments, and a list of Greene County s soldiers as far as we 
have been able to obtain them, together with some incidents and 
anecdotes connected with the great rebellion. From war's dark 
desolation and its train of human suffering and woe we have 
emerged into the glorious light of freedom, and universal i)eace 
now reigns througliout our land. The tramp of the s')ldier is 
no longer heard, nor the bugle-blast calling to arms; the weary 
march is ended; camp-fires are extinguished; the roar and din 
of battle is hushed. The Blue and the Gray can now meet as 
friends and brothers. Glorious America ! the asylum of the 
oppressed of all nations, rising from her sackcloth and ashes, 
re-invigorated by the desolations of war, shall work out her 
glorious destiny, and teach the crumbling despotisms of the Old 
World that man, enlightened by the principles of free institu 
tions, is capable of self-government. All hail ! America. Well 
hast thou earned the honor of being 

"The land of the free and the home of the brave." 



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